| 单词 | may lily |
| 释义 | > as lemmasMay lily †May lily n.,extracted from lilyn.adj.May lily May lily n. (a) lily of the valley, Convallaria majalis (now rare); (b) a Eurasian woodland plant, Maianthemum bifolium (family Convallariaceae), related to and resembling lily of the valley. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > lily and allied flowers > lily of the valley great park lily1538 May lily1548 lily of the valley1563 wood lily1563 liriconfancy1567 May blossoms1578 lily convally1597 valley-lily1597 wood-lily1597 lily-bell1729 vale-lily1823 lily cup1826 mugget1866 1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. C.viij The Poticaries in Germany do name it Lilium conuallium, it maye be called in englishe May Lilies. 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 331 Of Lilly in the valley, or May Lillie. 1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 319 May Lily, Convallaria. 1832 W. D. Williamson Hist. Maine I. 125 [We have] two varieties of meadow-lilies,..May-lily, or ‘lily of the valley’; and nodding-lily. 1945 R. S. R. Fitter London's Nat. Hist. ix. 147 The most famous of all the plants of Hampstead Heath, the may-lily (Maianthemum bifolium)..became extinct, allegedly owing to careless path-making. 1971 Watsonia 8 295 It is strange that such a conspicuous plant as the May Lily was not recorded for Norfolk until 1955. < as lemmas |
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