| 单词 | love vine |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslove vine love vine n. North American any of various plants of the genus Cuscuta (family Convolvulaceae); = dodder n. 1. [On the reasons for the name compare quots. 1935, 1974.] ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > poisonous or harmful plants > parasitic plants > [noun] > dodder doddera1300 hellweedc1510 choke-fitch1562 epithyme1585 podagry1657 devil's guts1670 love bush1814 love vine1833 flax-dodder1852 red tangle1857 fairies' hair1868 1833 A. Eaton Man. Bot. (ed. 6) 116 Cuscuta americana, dodder, love-vine. 1885 A. Brassey In Trades 325 The long tendrils of the love-vine rolled up into coils, which he assured us would live and grow for years, if hung on a nail indoors. 1935 Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 48 333 If you get a section of love vine and move it to another place, name it after the person about whom you want to know whether he or she is a lover of yours or not, and if the vine lives, the person does love you; if the vine dies, he or she does not. 1974 Nevada State Jrnl. 29 Sept. 39/6 I came across several plants entwined with dodder, otherwise known as love-vine. And love plants it does! It smothers them to death with its long golden strands. < as lemmas |
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