单词 | mimulus |
释义 | Mimulusn. 1. A genus of the family Scrophulariaceae, which comprises annual and perennial moisture-loving plants (including monkey flowers and musk plants, often cultivated) with showy flowers that are in most species bright yellow and sometimes spotted or blotched with red; (also mimulus) a plant of this genus, esp. the monkey flower M. guttatus. Also with unmarked plural.Valid publication of the genus name: Linnaeus Species Plantarum (1753) II. 634. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Scrophulariaceae (figwort and allies) > [noun] > other plants of the Scrophulariaceae Bartsia1753 Mimulus1754 goatweed1756 painted cup1776 mullein foxglove1856 1754 New & Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. III. 2080/2 Mimulus, a genus of the didynamia-angiospermia class of plants, with double stigmata, and a ringent monopetalous flower. 1768 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. (ed. 8) I. (at cited word) Upright Mimulus with oblong linear leaves. 1794 Bot. Mag. 8 283 Linnæus first gave to it [sc. Mimulus ringens] the name of Mimulus. 1824 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Gardening (ed. 2) Index 1206/2 Mimulus, monkey-flower. 1882 Garden 10 June 406/3 Single Mimuluses in variety..have been the most brilliant outdoor hardy flowers I have. 1900 Cycl. Amer. Hort.: E–M 1018/1 There is nothing difficult in the culture of Mimulus. Some of the finest plants have been self-sown on a rubbish heap. 1905 Longman's Mag. Jan. 253 The showy yellow flowers of the North American mimulus may be seen. 1963 Times 25 Apr. 14/6 I think of a turn in a wood and a solitary exquisite butterfly-orchis; of a wide green hillside and a patch of mimulus beside a grooved trickle of water. 1974 A. Scott-James Sissinghurst xiii. 143 The mimulus continues as the centrepoint. 1996 Amateur Gardening 25 May 13/2 There are a great many interesting plants that will thrive in wet soils such as yours. A few that you could try are: astilbes, primulas.., mimulus..and Houttuynia cordata. 2. Alternative Medicine. A medicinal preparation (esp. a tincture) of a plant of the genus Mimulus. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > tincture > [noun] > specific tinctures potable Mars1694 elixir1736 Huxham's tincture1788 sacred elixir1797 sacred tincture1797 alcoholature1831 mother tincture1842 Mimulus1933 1933 E. Bach Twelve Healers 25 It may be that Agrimony or Mimulus will be required to complete their cure. 1990 Health Now Apr. 7/3 He prescribed Mimulus to patients whose underlying condition was fear of known things. 1997 Your Horse Nov. 41/2 If there is a current obvious stress found, mimulus will help settle any oversensitivity. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1754 |
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