单词 | meadow cabbage |
释义 | > as lemmasmeadow cabbage meadow cabbage n. North American skunk cabbage, Symplocarpus foetidus, a North American plant with a strong garlic odour, formerly used medicinally. ΚΠ 1837 A. Tennant Veg. Materia Medica 421 Take two table spoons full of liferoot, one teaspoon full of angelica and two teaspoons of meadow cabbage, all pulverized and intimately mixed. 1892 Printers' Ink 21 Sept. 341/1 It is better that a rose should be called a rose, after all, than to be called that unfragrant meadow cabbage—even though by that name its odor would be the same. 1980 Gazette (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) 17 May 15 a/3 You can call it collard, you can call it meadow cabbage.., skunk weed or swamp cabbage, or whatever. It may have a fetid odour, but it is pretty. < as lemmas |
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