| 单词 | land caltrops |
| 释义 | > as lemmasland caltrops a. Now usually Caltrops: A name given to various plants that catch or entangle the feet, or suggest the instrument described in 2. Applied in Old English to brambles or buckthorn, and apparently to Eryngo or Sea-holly; by 16th cent. herbalists to Star-thistle ( Centaurea Calcitrapa) from its round head garnished with long radiant spines; also by translators to the spiny-seeded Tribulus terrestris ( land caltrops) of Southern Europe. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > weed > [noun] > caltrops caltropc1000 the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > weed > [noun] > star-thistle caltrop1578 starthistle1578 Barnaby-thistle1598 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > stalk vegetables > water-chestnut > seed of caltrop1597 water caltrop1597 the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > names applied to various plants > [noun] heatha700 beeworteOE leversc725 springworteOE clotec1000 halswortc1000 sengreenc1000 bottle?a1200 bird's-tonguea1300 bloodworta1300 faverolea1300 vetchc1300 pimpernel1378 oniona1398 bird's nest?a1425 adder's grassc1450 cockheada1500 ambrosia1525 fleawort1548 son before the father1552 crow-toe1562 basil1578 bird's-foot1578 bloodroot1578 throatwort1578 phalangium1608 yew1653 chalcedon1664 dittany1676 bleeding heart1691 felon-wort1706 hedgehog1712 land caltrops1727 old man's beard1731 loosestrife1760 Solomon's seal1760 fireweed1764 desert rose1792 star of Bethlehem1793 hen and chickens1794 Aaron's beard1820 felon-grass1824 arrowroot1835 snake-root1856 firebush1858 tick-seed1860 bird's eye1863 burning bush1866 rat-tail1871 lamb's earsa1876 lamb's tongue plant1882 tar-weed1884 Tom Thumb1886 parrotbeak1890 stinkweed1932 c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 269 Ramnus, colte~træppe, þefanðorn. a1100 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 298 Heraclea, calca~trippe. a1300 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 557/14 Tribulus marinus, i. calketrappe, seaþistel. a1387 Sinon. Barthol. in Anecdota Oxoniensia I. 37 Saliunca, wilde popi (marg. calketrappe). c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 58 Caltrap, herbe, saliunca. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iv. lix. 521 This herbe is now called in..English, Starre Thistel, or Caltrop. 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 676 Most do call the fruite of this Caltrops, Castaneæ aquatiles, or water Chesnuts. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Achantique Calthrop, or Star-thistle. 1671 W. Salmon Synopsis Medicinæ iii. xxii. 437 Tribulus Τριβολος Caltrop, abates inflamations. 1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) (at cited word) Land Caltrop..the Seeds are inclosed in a Fruit that is furnish'd with several Prickles, and resembles the Cross of Malta. 1855 R. C. Singleton tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. I. 80 Succeeds a prickly wood, And burrs and caltrops. < as lemmas |
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