单词 | meu |
释义 | meun. The herb spignel, Meum athamanticum. Also: the root of this plant. Cf. meum n.2, meon n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > medicinal and culinary plants > medicinal and culinary plant or part of plant > [noun] > spignel plant bearworta1400 meu1526 meon1543 meum1548 spignel1548 baldmoney1598 1526 Grete Herball cclxxix. sig. Qi/2 The rote of meu ought chefely to be put in medycyns and..is hote and drye in the seconde degre. 1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. E.v Meum..is called of the Poticaries Meu. 1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. E.v It maye be called in englishe mewe or duche Dyl. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iii. xv. 337 Mew groweth plenteously in Macedonia and Spayne. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 77 Meu or Spicknell is not found in Italy, vnlesse it be in some Physitians garden. 1633 T. Johnson Gerard's Herball (new ed.) ii. 1052 Mew, or Meon, groweth in Westmerland, at a place..betwixt Aplebie and Kendall. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Meu or Meum, (Gr.) Mew, Spiknel, wild Dill, an Herb with a Stalk and Leaves like Anis. 1828 J. E. Smith Eng. Flora (ed. 2) II. 84 Spignel, Meu, or Bald-money. 1861 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. III. 49 Mew or Bald~money..is pleasantly and powerfully aromatic. 1931 M. Grieve Mod. Herbal II. 500/2 The scent of the root of Meum athamanticum (Jacq.), spignel.., meu or bald-money, has much in common with that of both Lovage and Angelica. 1995 R. Hyam & R. Pankhurst Plants & their Names 319/2 Meum athamanticum, bald money, meu, spignel. Grown as an ornamental and used medicinally. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1526 |
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