单词 | banewort |
释义 | banewortn. a. gen. Any poisonous plant (dialect). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > [noun] > poisonous or stinging stinger1593 noxious weed1773 banewort1864 1864 Whitby Gloss. (at cited word) It's some mak o' banewort. b. spec. The Lesser Spearwort ( Ranunculus flammula), reputed to poison sheep. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Ranunculaceae (crowfoot and allies) > [noun] > spearwort spearworta1400 spear-grass1548 spickwort1575 banewort1578 spire-grass1626 butter plate1853 steep1894 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball 425 Called in some places of Englande Sperworte, it may be also called Banewort. 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 815 Speare Crowfoote, Spearewoort and Banewoort, bicause it is dangerous and deadly for sheepe. 1635 J. Swan Speculum Mundi vi. §4. 260 Spear-wort or Bane-wort, is an herb which if it be taken inwardly, is deadly. c. The Deadly Nightshade. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > poisonous or harmful plants > poisonous bush or tree > [noun] > deadly nightshade nightshadeOE dwale14.. garden nightshade1576 deadly nightshade1578 sleeping nightshade1578 belladonna1597 death's herb1598 sleepy nightshade1611 banewort1861 1847 Halliwell cites Skinner ] 1861 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. IV. 72 Dwale, or Deadly Nightshade..Early English botanists called it Bane-wort. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.1578 |
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