单词 | macedonian parsley |
释义 | > as lemmasMacedonian parsley Macedonian parsley n. [compare Middle French, French persil macedoine (1563; early 14th cent. in Old French as perresil macidoine, perrecil macidone), post-classical Latin petroselinum macedonicum (4th cent.), petrosilium macedonicum (c1230–50 in a British source)] now rare (in early use) any of several plants of the family Apiaceae ( Umbelliferae) esp. alexanders, Smyrnium olusatrum; (later) spec. Athamanta macedonica, which has somewhat parsley-like leaves; cf. earlier parsley of Macedonia n. at parsley n. 2b. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Umbelliferae (umbellifers) > [noun] > seseli parsley of Macedonia1526 mountain siler?1550 water withy1559 seseli1578 Macedonian parsley1649 Marseilles hartwort1727 1649 N. Culpeper Physicall Directory 151 Take of Calaminth of the mountains, Penyroyal, Origanum, The seeds of Macedonian Parsly, common Smallage, Seseli, of each two drachms. 1699 G. Harvey Vanities Philos. & Physick xi. 120 All Carminative Seeds, viz. Parsley, Fennil, Cummin, Anis, Dill, Carui, Daucus, Cardamom, Marsh-Parsley,..Macedonian Parsley, [etc.]. 1707 tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont Curiosities in Husbandry & Gardening 257 To make Celery, and Macedonian Parsly grow very fast. 1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Apium The Macedonian Parsley is a Stranger in our Country, and not to be found except in curious Botanick Gardens. 1747 Philos. Trans. 1746 (Royal Soc.) 44 230 Two Persons, who had eaten these roots, mistaking them for Macedonian Parsley. 1807 R. Morris & J. Kendrick Edinb. Med. & Physical Dict. II Petroselinum Macedonicum, Apium petræum or Petrapium, Macedonian parsley. 1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants 102/2 Macedonian Parsley, Athamanta macedonica. 2000 R. F. Langley Coll. Poems 59 It's Macedonian parsley and also, he says, the surface of fresh snow is more like fur. < as lemmas |
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