| 单词 | mouse-ear chickweed |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmouse-ear chickweed 2. More fully mouse-ear chickweed. Any of various small white-flowered plants constituting the genus Cerastium (family Caryophyllaceae), which somewhat resemble chickweed and are found in north temperate regions, esp. C. fontanum and C. glomeratum. Frequently with distinguishing word. Also (with distinguishing word): any of several related plants of the family Caryophyllaceae. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Caryophyllaceae (chickweeds and allies) > [noun] > chickweeds and stitchworts chicken meateOE bird's-tonguea1300 stitchworta1300 chickenweedc1300 piglea1400 chickweed?a1425 craches1530 mouse-ear1578 all-bony1597 chickenwort1762 Stellaria1785 all bones1787 mouse-eared chickweed1789 cerastium1799 starwort1809 satin flower1836 adder's meat1853 thunder-flower1853 snap-jack1867 shirt button1880 the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Caryophyllaceae (chickweeds and allies) > [noun] > other plants belonging to cow-basil1578 chickweed1597 pink1641 allseed1787 cyphel1787 mouse-ear1799 strapwort1799 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. xxxvi. 53 There is yet an other herbe, whiche some holde for Mouse eare:..set about with a fine and softe heare, the rest is very like the second Chickeweede. 1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 115/1 Alsine. Chickweede or mouseare. 1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I Myosotis, Mouse-ear Chickweed... The Species are; 1. Myosotis; Hispanica, segetum. Tourn. Spanish Corn Mouse-ear Chickweed. 2. Myosotis; Alpina, latifolia. Tourn. Broad-leav'd Mouse-ear Chickweed of the Alps. 1799 J. Hull Brit. Flora 30 Holosteum umbellatum... Umbelliferous Mouse-ear. 1799 J. Hull Brit. Flora 101 Cerastium viscosum... Clammy Mouse-ear... C. vulgatum... Narrow-leaved Mouse-ear [and others]. 1831 W. J. Hooker Brit. Flora (ed. 2) 212 C. tetrandrum, Curt. (four-cleft Mouse-ear Chickweed)... Sandy places, especially near the sea. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. Cerastium, a rather extensive genus of Caryophyllaceæ, containing small white-flowered plants, generally called Mouse-ear Chickweeds. 1922 H. S. Salt Call of Wildflower vi. 52 Its [sc. whitlow-grass's] near successor is the equally diminutive mouse-ear (cerastium semidecandrum), a white-petaled plant of a deep dark green, viscous, and thickly covered with hairs. 1947 J. Gilmour Wild Flowers of Chalk 28 Cerastium arvense has..larger flowers (twice as long as the sepals) than any of the other lowland mouse-ear chickweeds. 1990 Country Walking Jan. 44/1 You can spot the mountain saxifrages, gentians, forget-me-nots, speedwells and mouse ears, provided you're there at the right time. < as lemmas |
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