单词 | london pride |
释义 | London priden. a. The Sweet William, Dianthus barbatus, or a variety of it. Now dialect. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > pinks or carnations gillyflower1517 carnation1538 clove gillyflower1538 incarnation1538 William1538 pink1566 John1572 Indian eye1573 sops-in-wine1573 sweet John1573 sweet-william1573 tuft gillyflower1573 Colmenier1578 small honesty1578 tol-me-neer1578 London tuft1597 maidenly pink1597 mountain pink1597 clove-carnation1605 musk-gillyflower1607 London pride1629 pride of London1629 maiden pink1650 Indian pink1664 Spanish pink1664 pheasant's eye pink1718 flake1727 flame1727 picotee1727 old man's head1731 painted lady1731 piquet1731 China-pink1736 clove1746 wild pink1753 lime-wort1777 matted thrift1792 clove-pink1837 Cheddar Pink1843 Dianthus1849 bunch pink1857 perpetual-flowering carnation1861 cliff pink1863 meadow pink1866 musk carnation1866 Jack1873 wax-pink1891 Malmaison1892 grenadin1904 1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole (1656) 319 Speckled Sweet Williams, or London pride. 1671 S. Skinner & T. Henshaw Etymologicon Botanicum in Etymologicon Linguæ Anglicanæ Londons-Pride, or London-Tufts, Armeria Prolifera, sic dicta, quia flores propter pulchritudinem Londini valde expetuntur. 1672 W. Hughes Flower Garden 43 Sweet Williams and London-pride Flower at the same time, and are ordered as Sweet Iohns are. 1683 J. Sutherland Hortus Medicus Edinburgensis 71 Caryophyllus barbatus,..Sweet Williams, or Pride of London of several colours. b. Lychnis Chalcedonica. Now dialect. ΚΠ 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 64/1 The Pride of London is..of some called the Flower of Constantinople. 1886 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names App. (Chedworth, Glouc.). c. Saxifraga umbrosa. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > saxifrage flowers prattling parnel1597 pride of London1629 prince's feather1629 London pride1697 none-so-pretty1731 sanicle1760 heuchera1772 nancy-pretty1825 Bergenia1838 St. Patrick's cabbage1851 spider plant1852 strawberry geranium1880 garden gate1881 megasea1886 maiden's wreath1893 mother of thousands1910 1697 T. Molyneux in Philos. Trans. 1695–7 (Royal Soc.) 19 510 Cotyledon, sive Sedum serratum Latifolium Montanum guttato flore..vulgarly call'd by the Gardners London Pride: I suppose because of its pretty elegant Flower. 1726 C. Threlkeld Synopsis Stirpium Hibernicarum App. 2. 1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xix. 276 Another species was also formerly much shown out at windows and balconies in smoaky towns, and hence with its being really beautiful, had the names of London Pride and None-so-pretty. 1882 Garden 11 Feb. 92/2 The London Pride remains fresh and bright all through the winter. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1629 |
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