单词 | lady bracken |
释义 | > as lemmaslady bracken lady bracken n. chiefly Scottish (now rare) (a) common bracken, Pteridium aquilinum; †(b) lady fern, Athyrium filix-femina (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > ferns > [noun] > fern or bracken ferna800 brakec1325 brackenc1400 brack1482 bracken-bush1483 pteris1601 fern-brake1611 filix1731 lady bracken1820 pteridoid1866 pteridophyte1880 1820 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. June 278/1 Having removed the heather and decayed leafs of lady-bracken which covered the inscription. 1862 W. Wood East Neuk of Fife App. 364 Ferns... Lady Bracken (A. Filix femina..). 1863 A. D. T. Whitney Faith Gartney's Girlhood xiv. 123 Graceful birches..leaned over the road toward the water; and close down to its ripples grew..lush grass, and lady bracken. 1883 H. Friend Flowers & Flower Lore I. 98 In Scotland, we find one kind of fern called Lady-bracken. 1946 E. Step Wayside & Woodland Ferns (ed. 2) 36 Other folk-names [for Pteridium aquilinum] are Adder-spit.., Lady Bracken (Dumfries and Roxburgh).., and Common Fern. < as lemmas |
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