单词 | nailwort |
释义 | nailwortn. Any of several plants formerly reputed to be effective in treating whitlows: †(a) wild violet ( Viola species) (obsolete); †(b) whitlow-grass, Erophila verna (obsolete); †(c) rue-leaved saxifrage, Saxifraga tridactylites (obsolete); (d) chiefly North American = paronychia n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > [noun] > names applied to various plants or parts boneworteOE springworteOE atterlothec1000 halswortc1000 bruisewortOE motherworta1200 panax?a1200 bloodworta1300 serpentinea1400 tutsana1400 wartworta1400 wormseeda1400 grace of God?c1400 nailworta1425 Gratia Dei?c1425 sanguinaryc1440 panacea1522 parthenium1548 woundwort1548 wart-weed1573 cardiaca1578 hermodactyl1578 panacea1590 holy seed1597 whitlow-grass1597 feverwort1611 fever and ague root1676 rattlesnake root1682 snake-root1712 cancer root1714 fever-root1739 strongback1739 rheumatism root1835 heal-all1853 wound-weed1857 the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Caryophyllaceae (chickweeds and allies) > [noun] > paronychia or whitlow-wort nailwort1611 whitlow-wort1650 paronychia1666 silver chickweed1856 a1425 in T. Hunt Plant Names Medieval Eng. (1989) 262 [Viola Agrestis/Subalbida] nay[l]wort, ungylwort, lasse wyolet. a1500 in T. Hunt Plant Names Medieval Eng. (1989) 263 [Viola minor] anglice þe lasse violet, ungulwort or maylewort [corrected to naylewort]. 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 500 There is another sort of Whitlow grasse or Naile woort, that is likewise a low or base herb, hauing a small tough roote. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Paronychie, Whitlo-grasse, Nayle-wort (a weed). 1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) III. 565 Draba verna... Common Whitlow-grass. Nailwort. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 775/1 Nailwort, Draba verna; also Saxifraga tridactylites. 1902 T. W. Sanders Encycl. Gardening (ed. 5) 273 Paronychia (Nailwort, Whitlow-wort, Whitlow-grass)... Dwarf-creeping perennial herbs. Nat. S. Europe. 1976 Hortus Third (L. H. Bailey Hortorium) 823/1 Paronychia Mill. Whitlowwort, nailwort, chickweed. 1996 K. S. Robinson Blue Mars 320 More plants bloomed as the spring months passed, first early ones like promise-of-spring and snow liverwort, then later ones such as..moss campion and alpine nailwort. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1425 |
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