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单词 meadow saffron
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meadow saffron
meadow saffron n. any of various crocus-like plants constituting the Eurasian and North African monocotyledonous genus Colchicum (family Colchicaceae), esp. C. autumnale of Britain and western Europe (also called autumn crocus, naked ladies), which produces mauve flowers in the autumn and broad leaves in the following spring and which is a source of the drug colchicine.
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wood-lilya1400
saffron of the spring1548
meadow saffron1551
hermodactyl1578
Mercury's finger1589
colchicum1597
autumn crocus1629
naked ladies1668
naked boysa1697
upstart1852
1551 W. Turner New Herball sig. Liiiv Colchicon..may be called in englyshe meddowe safforne... I haue sene it growe in the west cuntre besyde bathe.
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iii. xxxv. 367 Medowe Saffron..is..found..about Bath in Englande.
a1678 T. Hanmer Garden Bk. (1933) 43 (heading) Of colchicums, or meadow saffrons.
1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Colchicum Colchicum; Candidum, multiflorum, C.B. Many-flower'd white Meadow-Saffron.
1878 tr. H. W. von Ziemssen et al. Cycl. Pract. Med. XVII. 734 Some seed-capsules of the meadow-saffron.
1946 A. Nelson Princ. Agric. Bot. iv. 89 In meadow saffron, a poisonous weed of pastures, the bud which forms the aerial shoot in spring is lateral and located near the base of a corm which has over-wintered.
1992 Nat. World Spring 6/3 Boulsbury Wood is the..only site in the county [sc. Hampshire] for meadow saffron and wood vetch.
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