| 单词 | king's clover |
| 释义 | > as lemmasking's clover 2. Applied in different localities, with qualifying word prefixed, to many plants of the same order, or with similar characters; as bird's-foot clover, cat's clover, Lotus corniculatus; Calvary clover, Medicago Echinus; heart clover, spotted clover, Medicago maculata; yellow clover, Medicago lupulina; horned clover, snail clover, species of Medicago; Bokhara clover, Melilotus vulgaris; garden clover, Melilotus cærulea; hart's clover, king's clover, plaister clover, Melilotus officinalis; marsh clover, Menyanthes trifoliata; cuckoo's clover, gowk's clover, lady's clover, sour clover, Oxalis acetosella; thousand-leaved clover, Achillea Millefolium; Soola clover or Maltese clover, Hedysarum coronarium. Also in U.S.: bush clover, Lespedeza; prairie clover, Petalostemon; sweet clover, Melilotus. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > [noun] > melilot hart-cloverc1000 melilotOE melion?1440 king's crown1526 hart's clover1548 king's clover1548 lote1548 wild lotus1548 hart's-trefoil1640 heartwort1640 whittle-grass1825 the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Compositae (composite plants) > [noun] > medicks medick?1440 snail clover1548 heart trefoil1597 snails1629 melilot trefoil1677 Barbary buttons1712 black-seed1763 snail-plant1767 black medick1778 heart liver1792 snail-shell medick1796 spotted medick1825 hop1866 Calvary clover1882 1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. E.iij It hath leaues like a clauer and horned cods... Therfore it maye be called in englishe horned Clauer or snail Trifoly. 1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. E.ij Lotus vrbana..may be named in english gardine Clauer or gardine Trifoly. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iv. xxxvii. 496 Turner calleth Lotus vrbana in English, Garden or Sallet Clauer: we may call it sweete Trefoyl, or three leaued grasse. 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique v. xviii. 699 The good husbandman must be carefull to gather and reserue seede of this snaile clauer. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §493 They make it a Peece of the wonder, that Garden Clauer will hide the Stalke, when the Sunne sheweth bright. 1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum 720 (Britten & H.) In some places they call it Hart's Claver, because if it grow where stagges and deere resort, they will greedily feede thereon..In English wee call it generally King's Claver as the chiefest of all other three-leaved grasses. 1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xxv. 371 We have one variety [of Medicago] very common wild, called Heart-Clover from the form of the leaves, which are also generally spotted. king's clover king's clover n. now historical a melilot, esp. yellow melilot, Melilotus officinalis. ΚΠ 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 1034 (caption) Melilotus coronata. Kings Clauer. 1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum 720 In English wee call it generally Kings Claver as the chiefest of all other three leafed grasses, generally called Clavers or Claver grasses, and Melilot after the Latine name to be the more easily understood. 1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) III. 646 Melilot Trefoil. Common Melilot. King's Claver. 1899 Churchman 8 July 26/3 This last variety was called ‘king's clover’, in England. 1993 D. Bellamy Blooming Bellamy vi. 157 It [sc. wild lote] is also known as King's Clover, perhaps because it took over the farms of the Tudor peasantry. < as lemmas |
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