单词 | mitella |
释义 | mitellan.ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > surgical supports > [noun] > sling scarf1598 mitella1661 string1718 sling1720 suspensorium1771 1661 S. Pordage Mundorum Explicatio ii. 156 A Quiver hung, by a Mitella ty'd..Under her left arm. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 434/2 The Mitella is a..Scarf to..carry the Arme in, that is hurt or wounded. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Mitella, in surgery, a name given to the scarf for suspending the arm when injured. 1857 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (rev. ed.) 597/2 Mitella, sling. 2. In form Mitella: a genus of perennial plants of the family Saxifragaceae, native to North America and north-east Asia and cultivated elsewhere, which have a basal rosette of leaves, racemes of small flowers, and fruits thought to resemble mitres; (also mitella) a plant of this genus. Cf. mitrewort n.For the meaning of the name, cf. quot. 1731 and the English synonyms bishop's cap and mitrewort.Valid publication of the genus name: Linnaeus Species Plantarum (1753) I. 406. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > saxifrage and allies > [noun] sengreenc1000 wayworta1300 saxifragec1440 stonebreak1548 grass of Parnassus1578 mountain pennywort1578 white liverwort1597 breakstone1688 Parnassia1727 mitella1731 lady's cushion1739 tiarella1759 American bastard sanicle1760 sanicle1760 mitrewort1771 queen's cushion1825 bishop's-cap1839 astilbe1843 coolwort1848 mitrewort1848 rodgersia1874 chrysosplene1877 rockfoil1879 old man's beard1882 foam flower1895 Indian rhubarb1897 mossy1938 piggyback plant1946 heucherella1949 1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I Mitella (so call'd, of Mitella, Lat. a little Mitre, because the Seed-vessel of this Plant resembles a Bishop's Mitre). Bastard American Sanicle... American Mitella. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. 9/1 Mitella, in botany, the name of a genus of plants, the characters of which are these: the flower is of the rosaceous kind [etc.]. 1819 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. 2nd Ser. VIII. 168 The latter part of May appear..the prostrate and two-leaved mitellas, the three-leaved arum [etc.]. 1882 Harper's Mag. Nov. 853/2 Why should the starry blossom of the fringed mitella seek the snow-flake as its model? 1900 Amer. Naturalist 34 242 Mitella, of the trifida section, is passed in review by Piper. 1955 Bot. Gaz. 117 /2 Published data would indicate rather conclusively that 7 is a basic number, occurring at present in Tiarella, Heuchera, Tellima, and Mitella. 1976 Hortus Third (L. H. Bailey Hortorium) 736/1 Mitella... Useful for the rock garden and the wild garden. 1990 Systematic Bot. 15 350/2 Asian mitellas were not possible to obtain. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1661 |
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