| 单词 | meadow thistle |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmeadow thistle meadow thistle n. a West European thistle with purple flowers, Cirsium dissectum, found in marshes and bogs and in fields with damp peaty soil. ΚΠ 1688 J. Ray Historia Plantarum I. vii. iii. 305 Corduus pratensis latifolius C. B. Park. pratensis Tragi J. B. Tragus his Meadow-Thistle. 1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) III. 702 Carduus pratensis... Meadow Thistle. Single-headed Thistle. English soft or gentle Thistle... Moist meadows and pastures, not uncommon. 1858 A. Irvine Illustr. Handbk. Brit. Plants 506 C[arduus] pratensis. Meadow Thistle... Parkhurst Forest, Isle of Wight, very plentiful..; Windsor Forest; Wandsworth and Wimbledon Commons. 1920 J. Vaughan Music of Wild Flowers viii. 77 Scattered all over the moorland the solitary purple flowers of the strangely named ‘meadow-thistle’ will be seen. 1992 Wildlife News (Berks., Bucks & Oxon Naturalists' Trust) May 5/2 There are small areas of true fen where water seeps out of the ground. Purple moor grass and meadow thistle are particularly characteristic of these areas. < as lemmas |
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