| 单词 | mist maiden |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmist maiden mist maiden n. (a) poetic an ethereal female form, esp. a personification of mist; (b) U.S. regional, any member of the genus Romanzoffia (family Hydrophyllaceae), comprising small, white-flowered rock plants native to western North America; esp. R. sitchensis. ΚΠ 1888 Atlantic Monthly Sept. 302/2 Then the winds gather the mist maidens, the waves hurl themselves upon the coast. 1897 M. E. Parsons Wild Flowers Calif. 22 Mist-maidens... These delicate herbs resemble the saxifrages, and they affect much the same sort of places, decking mossy banks and stream borders with their beautiful scalloped leaves and small white flowers. 1937 Amer. Midland Naturalist 18 979 Romanzoffia sitchensis Bong., Mist Maiden. 1976 A. Waldman Jrnls. & Dreams 128 Silver water cascading down to a silent place. Mist maiden, a tree hung around my neck. 1979 J. Hodgins Resurrection Joseph Bourne ii. i. 40 After all, she wasn't equipped like the waxy leaves of the Mist Maiden flower for shedding seawater before it could do her damage. < as lemmas |
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