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单词 lucerne
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lucernen.1

Brit. /luːˈsəːn/, /ljuːˈsəːn/, U.S. /luˈsərn/
Etymology: < Latin lucerna, < luc- ablaut-variant of lūc-, lūx light.
? Obsolete exc. Historical.
A lamp, lantern.
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the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > [noun] > lamp
lightfatOE
lampc1200
lucernec1450
pharos1759
lite1924
c1450 O lewd book 23 in W. W. Skeat Chaucerian & Other Pieces (1897) 360 Lucerne a-night with hevenly influence Illumined.
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 83 Lucerne in derne for to discerne, Be glory and grace devyne.
1883 C. C. Perkins Hist. Handbk. Ital. Sculpt. iii. iv. 375 A multitude of wreaths, tablets, masks, festoons, lucernes, genii holding lyres [etc.].
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

lucernelucernn.2

Brit. /luːˈsəːn/, /ljuːˈsəːn/, U.S. /luˈsərn/
Forms: Also 1600s luceran, 1700s–1800s lusern(e, 1800s luzern.
Etymology: < French luzerne (16th cent.), in Cotgrave also luserne, < modern Provençal luzerno of unascertained etymology. Compare French lauserne, lauserte, ‘Shrub Trefoile, Milke Trefoile, Citisus Bush’ (Cotgrave). In English agricultural books of 17th and 18th centuries the word constantly occurs as la lucerne, with the French article prefixed.
a. The leguminous plant Medicago sativa, resembling clover, cultivated for fodder; purple medick. native or paddy lucerne = Queensland hemp, Sida rhombifolia (Morris Austral Eng.).
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the world > food and drink > food > animal food > [noun] > fodder > plants used as fodder
bullimong1313
podder1468
tare1482
greens1607
lucerne1652
esperate1659
esparcet1669
tare-thistle1753
buckwheat1776
mangel-wurzel1787
mangold1848
sacate1848
sacaton1865
mangel-wurzel potato1875
mutter1875
ramon1885
cattle-bush1889
manna1897
beech-wheat-
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fodder plants > [noun] > alfalfa or lucerne
medick?1440
medicac1487
snail-trefoil1548
snail clover1597
Burgundy hay1600
lucerne1652
nonsuch1662
alfalfa1764
1652 W. Blith Eng. Improver Improved xxvii. 185 Chap. xxvii Speaks of the usage of St. Foyne and La-lucern.
1659 A. Speed Adam out of Eden v. 38 Clovergrass..is a grass very hardy, not much inferior to Luceran.
1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (1681) 31 It is not so good as La Lucerne..only this will grow on drier and poorer Land than Lucern.
1733 J. Tull Horse-hoing Husbandry xv. 92 La Luserne is that Famous Herba Medica so much Extoll'd by the Ancients.
1733 J. Tull Horse-hoing Husbandry xv. 93 Luserne in Grass is much sweeter than St. Foin.
1762 Gentleman's Mag. June 262/1 One acre of Lucerne can maintain three or four horses.
1818 W. Cobbett Year's Resid. U.S.A. i. i. 16 Warm and fine. Grass pushes on. Saw some Lucern in a warm spot, 8 inches high.
1830 J. Baxter Libr. Agric. & Hort. Knowl. 332 Lucern is much superior to clover for soiling milch cows.
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 552 Lucern.—This kind of forage plant has never been successfully cultivated in Scotland, nor has it taken much hold in England.
1873 R. Browning Red Cotton Night-cap Country i. 3 All its growth unsheaved Of emerald luzern bursting into blue.
1883 H. W. V. Stuart Egypt 136 After the cotton is gathered we immediately sow lucerne.
b. attributive, as lucerne field, lucerne grass, lucerne paddock, lucerne seed.
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1724 Act 11 Geo. I c. 7 (Bk. Rates) Seed, vocat Lucerne Seed the C. wt. 0. 10. 0.
1733 J. Tull Horse-hoing Husbandry xv. 92 Tho' one Luserne Root be much more Taper than another.
1733 J. Tull Horse-hoing Husbandry xv. 94 Luserne Plants.
1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 318 Lucern Grass, Medicago.
1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 125 An old working bullock in a lucerne field.
1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 218 A lucerne paddock.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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