单词 | milk thistle |
释义 | milk thistlen. 1. Any of various plants of the family Asteraceae ( Compositae) with a milky juice; esp. (a) a sowthistle (genus Sonchus); (b) a kind of wild lettuce, esp. prickly lettuce, Lactuca serriola (now chiefly U.S.). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > weed > [noun] > sow thistle thowthistlea700 sow-thistlea1250 swine thistlea1350 milk thistlec1450 Saint Mary's seeda1500 Sonchus1558 hare's lettuce1597 smooth thistle1633 milkweed1736 tare-thistle1753 cow-thistle1832 puha1843 rauriki1848 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > root vegetables > chicory hardhewe?a1350 redwort?a1425 chicorya1450 horse-thistlec1450 milk thistlec1450 succory1541 ambubey1585 intybe1666 cat-succory1715 cichoriuma1806 witloof1885 radicchio1892 c1450 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 610/5 Scariola, the mylkthystel. a1500 in T. Hunt Plant Names Medieval Eng. (1989) 223 [Rostrum Porcinum] milk-þistil or swynisþistil. a1500 in T. Hunt Plant Names Medieval Eng. (1989) 232 [Scariola] anglice shariol .i. mylkesthistill. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 1072 Sonchus oleraceus and S. asper or Milk Thistle. 1880 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names Milk Thistle... Sonchus oleraceus, L., in allusion to its milky juice. 1898 H. C. Hart Flora County Donegal App. 381 Milk thistle, milk thrissel, Sonchus arvensis. Used for feeding cows. 1912 W. S. Blatchley Indiana Weed Bk. 146 Lactuca scariola... Prickly lettuce. Milk thistle. 1936 Fieldbk. Illinois Wild Flowers (Illinois Nat. Hist. Surv.) 389 Milk Thistle... Sheep eat the young leaves quite greedily. 1960 S. Ary & M. Gregory Oxf. Bk. Wild Flowers 34/1 Corn Sowthistle or Field Milk-thistle (Sonchus arvensis). A perennial with a hollow stem and milky juice. 1998 Canberra Times (Nexis) 11 Apr. a11 Most of us are familiar with the Scottish thistle... Others include the prickly or wild lettuce also known as the whip or milk thistle. 2. A thistle of the Mediterranean region, Silybum marianum, with a solitary purple flower and glossy white-veined leaves, naturalized elsewhere and used in herbal medicine. Also called lady's thistle. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Compositae (composite plants) > [noun] > thistles thistlec725 carduea1398 wolf's-thistlea1400 cardoona1425 wolf-thistle1526 cotton-thistle1548 gum-thistle1548 oat thistle1548 black chameleon1551 ixia1551 Saint Mary thistle1552 milk thistle1562 cow-thistle1565 bedeguar1578 carline1578 silver thistle1578 white chameleon1578 globe thistle1582 ball thistle1597 down thistle1597 friar's crown1597 lady's thistle1597 gummy thistle1598 man's blood1601 musk thistle1633 melancholy thistle1653 Scotch thistle1660 boar-thistle1714 spear- thistle1753 gentle thistle1760 woolly thistle1760 wool-thistle1769 bur-thistlea1796 Canada thistle1796 pine thistle1807 plume thistle1814 melancholy plume thistle1825 woolly-headed thistle1843 dog thistle1845 dwarf thistle1846 welted thistle1846 pixie glove1858 Mexican thistle1866 Syrian thistle1866 bull thistle1878 fish belly1878 fish-bone-thistle1882 green thistle1882 herringbone thistle1884 Californian thistle1891 winged thistle1915 fish-thistles- 1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 146 Leucacantha..named in English milkthystel. 1724 J. J. Dillenius Ray's Synopsis Methodica Stirpium Brit. (ed. 3) 195 Carduus Mariæ Ger. 989... Common Milk-thistle, or Ladies-thistle. 1787 W. Withering Brit. Plants (ed. 2) II. 875 Carduus marianus... Leaves with a net-work of white veins... Milk Thistle. Ladies Thistle. 1883 W. Robinson Eng. Flower Garden 270/2 If a few plants are raised in the garden and planted out in rough and somewhat bare places or banks, &c., the Milk Thistle will soon establish itself permanently. 1922 H. S. Salt Call of Wildflower xvi. 163 Even there..were growing plants which might make a memorable day in the annals of a flower-lover, notably the maiden pink and the milk-thistle. 1960 S. Ary & M. Gregory Oxf. Bk. Wild Flowers 150/2 Milk Thistle (Silybum marianum). This rather rare annual or biennial Thistle has large, solitary, often drooping, purple flower-heads. 1991 Sci. News 19 Jan. 43/1 I'd up my intake of dandelions, milk thistle and artichokes, all of which contain hepatoprotective compounds. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1450 |
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