| 单词 | nettle top |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnettle top nettle top n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > leaf vegetables > [noun] > other leaves nettle top?1585 lettuce1597 green food1658 peppergrass1696 Welsh onion1731 lamb's quarter1773 Shawnee salad1780 puha1843 poke greens1848 rauriki1848 swede greens1887 swede tops1887 lettuce green1900 leafy greena1918 rapini1959 ?1585 W. C. Aduentures Ladie Egeria sig. G2v In the nettle top seemed a most bitter sower crab to grow. 1699 J. Evelyn Acetaria 19 The tender winders, with young nettle-tops, are us'd in Lenten pottages. 1797 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 693/2 Nettle-tops in the spring are often boiled and eaten by the common people. 1837 B. D. Walsh tr. Aristophanes Knights i. iii, in Comedies 174 Like those who're fond of nettle-tops. 1991 Country Living (BNC) June 82 The caterpillars..live inside a silk canopy, which they spin around themselves when feeding on the nettle tops. < as lemmas |
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