| 单词 | lesser water parsnip |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslesser water parsnip Any of the aquatic or semiaquatic umbelliferous plants of (or formerly of) the genus Sium (family Apiaceae ( Umbelliferae)); esp. S. suave, widespread in the northern hemisphere, S. latifolium (more fully great water parsnip), and Berula erecta (more fully lesser water parsnip).The creeping water parsnip of some earlier sources is probably either fool's watercress, Apium nodiflorum, or creeping marshwort, Apium repens. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > aquatic, marsh, and sea-shore plants > [noun] > water-parsley or aquatic umbellifers water parsley1562 marsh parsley1582 hemlock (water) dropwort1597 water parsnip1597 water lovage1633 five-fingered root1747 marshwort1776 fool's watercress1837 sap-wort1844 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 199 Great water Parsnepe..is described to haue leaues of a pleasant sauour. 1648 J. Bobart Eng. Catal. at Parsnep, in Catalogus Plantarum Horti Medici Oxoniensis Creeping water parsnep, Sium repens. 1671 W. Salmon Synopsis Medicinæ iii. xxii. 432 Sium,..Water-parsnep. 1771 Ann. Reg. 1770 118/1 Three children of a poor cottager in Ireland having eaten of the herb Daho or Water-parsnep, two of them died. 1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xvii. 236 The Creeping Water Parsnep, [Note] Sium nodiflorum Lin. 1861 S. Thomson Wanderings among Wild Flowers (rev. ed.) iii. 234 The siums, or water-parsnips, are..not uncommon. 1907 Irish Naturalist 16 188 In the drains are Dropworts, the Narrow-leaved Water-Parsnip, [etc.]. 2007 Guardian 25 July 35/4 Some rarities can be seen flowering now, such as the great water parsnip. < as lemmas |
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