单词 | joe-pye weed |
释义 | joe-pye weedn. North American. Either of two tall, perennial herbs, Eupatorium purpureum or E. maculatum, belonging to the family Compositæ, and bearing clusters of purplish flowers. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Compositae (composite plants) > [noun] > hemp-agrimony holy ropec1485 eupatory1542 agrimony1578 Eupatorium1578 bastard hemp1597 water agrimony1597 hemp-agrimony1760 hempweed1796 joe-pye weed1818 trumpet-weed1830 feverwort1836 gravel-root- 1818 A. Eaton Man. Bot. (ed. 2) ii. 245 Eupatorium..purpureum..purple thoroughwort, or joe-pye. 1818 A. Eaton Man. Bot. (ed. 2) ii. 245 Eupatorium..verticillatum..joe-pye's weed. 1845–50 A. H. Lincoln Familiar Lect. Bot. (new ed.) Appendix 102/2 Purple thoroughwort, joe-pye. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 638/1 Joe-pye weed. An American name for Eupatorium purpureum. 1885 Outing (U.S.) Nov. 180/1 Joe-pie-weed flaunts his red umbels in view by the ditch and railroads. 1893 F. T. Dana Wild Flowers iii. 210 Joe-Pye-Weed. Trumpet-Weed. Eupatorium purpureum... ‘Joe Pye’ is said to have been the name of an Indian who cured typhus fever in New England by means of this plant. 1895 K. D. Wiggin Village Watch-tower 42 Purple asters and gay Joe Pye waved their colors by the road-side. 1903 E. C. Waltz Pa Gladden vii. 144 In other Septembers the slope..was lovely with..joepye-weed. 1949 Nature Mag. Apr. 187/2 Later the cowslips are replaced by purple loose~strife and that butterfly magnet, Joe-pye weed. 1954 C. J. Hylander Macmillan Wild Flower Bk. 412 Joe-Pye-weed is found from New England south to North Carolina and New Mexico. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1818 |
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