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单词 moederkappie
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moederkappien.

Brit. /ˈmʊdəkapi/, U.S. /ˈmʊdərˌkæpi/, South African English /ˈmʊdəkʌpi/
Forms: 1900s– moederkapje, 1900s– moederkappie, 1900s– moederkappitje.
Origin: A borrowing from Afrikaans. Etymon: Afrikaans moederkappie.
Etymology: < Afrikaans moederkappie (earlier South African Dutch moederkapje ), lit. ‘mother-bonnet’ < Dutch moeder mother n.1 + kapje little hat ( < kap (see cap n.1) + -je, diminutive suffix), with reference to the shape of the flower.The form Muttercap in quot. 1887 is perhaps after German Mutter mother n.1
South African.
Any of several South African orchids with bonnet-shaped flowers, esp. Pterygodium catholicum, Disperis capensis, and Bonatea speciosa.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > orchids
satyrionOE
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bollock?a1425
martagon1548
orchis1559
dogstones1562
hare's-ballocks1562
stone1562
bollock grass1578
dog's cods1578
dog's cullions1578
double-leaf1578
fly-orchis1578
goat's cullions1578
goat's orchis1578
priest's pintle1578
twayblade1578
bee-orchis1597
bifoil1597
bird's nest1597
bird's orchis1597
butterfly orchis1597
fenny-stones1597
gelded satyrion1597
gnat satyrion1597
humble-bee orchis1597
lady's slipper1597
sweet ballocks1597
two-blade1605
cullions1611
bee-flower1626
fly-flower1640
man orchis1670
musk orchis1670
moccasin flower1680
gnat-flower1688
faham tea1728
Ophrys1754
green man orchis1762
Arethusa1764
honey flower1771
cypripedium1775
rattlesnake plantain1778
Venus's slipper1785
Adam and Eve1789
lizard orchis179.
epidendrum1791
Pogonia?1801
Vanda1801
cymbidium1815
Oncidium1822
putty-root1822
Noah's Ark1826
yellow moccasin1826
gongora1827
cattleya1828
green man1828
nervine1828
stanhopea1829
dove-flower1831
catasetum1836
Odontoglossum1836
Miltonia1837
letter plant1838
spread eagle1838
letter-leaf1839
swan-plant1841
orchid1843
disa1844
masdevallia1845
Phalaenopsis1846
faham1850
Indian crocus1850
moccasin plant1850
pleione1851
dove orchis1852
nerve root1854
Holy Ghost flower1862
basket-plant1865
lizard's tongue1866
mousetail1866
Sobralia1866
swan-neck1866
swanwort1866
Indian shoe1876
odontoglot1879
wreathewort1879
moth orchid1880
rattlesnake orchid1881
dendrobe1882
dove-plant1882
Madeira orchis1882
man orchis1882
swan-flower1884
slipper-orchid1885
slipper orchis1889
mayflower1894
scorpion orchid1897
moederkappie1910
dove orchid1918
monkey orchid1925
man orchid1927
1887 J. Mackinnon S. Afr. Traits 124 Here is the Pride of Table Mountain and the Muttercap, two of the twenty-five species of orchids that exist in South Africa.]
1910 D. Fairbridge That which hath Been xxiii. 284 Orchids in inexhaustible variety, from scarlet disas to yellow moeder-kapjes..are still left to us.
1926 A. Handel Hamer Wild Flowers of Cape 5 On both western and eastern slopes [of Table Mountain],..a pretty and quaint little orchid may now be found, Disperis capensis (Moeder Kappitjes—mother caps, or sun-bonnets).
1952 Cape Times 8 May 14/1 Pine trees..together with humans, have been too much for the nerines, the moederkappies and other veld things which used to flower there.
1971 U. van der Spuy Wild Flowers S. Afr. 209/2 (caption) Moederkappie (Pterygodium catholicum) bears its flowers of subtle colours in spring.
1973 Standard Encycl. Southern Afr. VIII. 382/1 Moederkappie. Oumakappie... These names are borne by two quite distinct species.
1988 B. van Wyk & S. Malan Field Guide Wildflowers Witwatersrand & Pretoria Region 302 Bonatea speciosa..Moederkappie.
1996 Wild Flowers S. Afr. (ed. 2) 34 (caption) Disperis capensis: Granny-bonnet, Moederkappie.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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