| 单词 | jersey tea |
| 释义 | > as lemmasJersey tea Jersey tea n. the red-root, Ceanothus americanus, the leaves of which were used as a substitute for tea. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > non-British shrubs > [noun] > North-American > ceanothus or red-root redroot1709 Jersey tea1759 New Jersey tea1759 New Jersey tea1760 spirit weed1864 myrtle1880 ceanothus1882 buck's-eye1883 red-heart1911 1759 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. (ed. 7) at Ceanothus New Holland Dogwood with female cornel leaves commonly called New Jersey Thea grows naturally in most Parts of North America, from whence great Plenty of the Seeds have been of late Years brought to Europe, by the Title of New Jersey Thea, where I have been informed the inhabitants dry the leaves of this Shrub to use as Thea. 1808 H. Muhlenburg Let. 5 July in E. Rowland Life W. Dunbar (1930) 203 Red Root or Jersey Tea we call the Ceanothus americanus a little shrub with white Flowers, cordate leaves—Some times the sanguinaria is called so. 1847 J. W. Abert in W. H. Emory Notes Mil. Reconnaissance (1848) 387 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (30th Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Exec. Doc. 41) IV The beautiful white clusters of the Jersey tea. 1870 Amer. Naturalist 4 583 The Ceanothus, or Jersey tea, is a frequent inhabitant of the prairies. 1948 Green Bay (Wisconsin) Press-Gaz. 13 July 11/4 Jersey tea, the shrub whose leaves were the ‘tea’ used by the colonists after the Boston tea party. < as lemmas |
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