| 单词 | large white helleborine |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslarge white helleborine white helleborine n. (more fully large white helleborine), an orchid with creamy-white flowers, Cephalanthera damasonium, found chiefly in beech woods on chalky soil from Britain to Asia Minor, and southward to North Africa. ΚΠ 1665 J. Rea Flora xxvii. 144 The true black Hellebor flowreth about Christmas, the two white Hellebors in June, the Ladies Slipper, and the white Helleborine in the end of April or beginning of May. 1778 W. Hudson Flora Anglica (rev. ed.) I. 394 White Helleborine...in the woods near Stokenchurch, Oxfordshire. 1914 E. von Arnim Pastor's Wife xxxii. 413 In the dusk it was only the white flowers that still shone, the stitchworts, the clusters of Star of Bethlehem, the spikes of white helleborine. 2014 Dorking Advertiser (Nexis) 24 Apr. 24 The beautiful white helleborine, with its ‘tulip flowers’, enjoys the light shade of beech woods. < as lemmas |
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