单词 | bedstraw |
释义 | bedstrawn.ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > bedding > [noun] > grass or straw used as bedstrawc1386 bed-litterc1425 litterc1440 c1386 G. Chaucer Merchant's Tale 539 O perilous fyr that in the bedstraw bredeth. 1388 J. Wyclif Psalms vi. 7 Y schal moiste my bedstre [1382 bedding] with my teeris. 1483 Cath. Angl. 25 Bedstrey, stratum, stratorium. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball 402 Ferne put into the bedstrowe, driueth away the stinking punayses. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §696 The Chamber and Bedstraw, kept close, and not Aired. ?c1640 W. Rowley et al. Witch of Edmonton (1658) iv. ii. 176 More fire i' th' Bed-straw? 2. Name applied to a genus of plants ( Galium, family Rubiaceæ) containing many species, with slender ascending stems, whorled or cruciate leaves, and small clustered flowers. One of these ( G. verum) has long borne the legendary name of Our Lady's Bedstraw (cf. the similarly allusive Our Lady's Garters, Mantle, Slippers, Smock, etc.); whence recent writers have somewhat irrationally taken ‘Bedstraw’ as an English book-name for the whole genus making ‘Our Lady's Bedstraw’ a species. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Rubiaceae or Galiaceae (bedstraw, etc.) > [noun] wild madderc1450 crudwort15.. Our Lady bedstraw1527 Our Lady's bedstraw1543 galion1548 maidenhair1548 purple goose-grass1548 cheese renning1578 crosswort1578 golden mugget1578 petty mugget1578 lady's bedstraw1585 maid's hair1597 cheese rennet1599 runnet1678 field madder1684 mugweed1690 rondeletia1739 Richardia1755 petty madder1760 madderlen1770 galium1785 Sherardia1785 joint-grass1790 mugwort1796 bluet1818 bedstraw1820 madderwort1845 hundredfold1853 honeywort1863 1527 L. Andrewe tr. H. Brunschwig Vertuose Boke Distyllacyon sig. Oiv Our lady bedstrawe, serpillum in latyn. 1543 B. Traheron tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. i. v. f. 169v/2 Decoction..of the herbe called our ladyes bedstrawe. 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 966 There be diuers of the herbes called Ladies Bedstraw, or Cheese renning. 1784 J. Twamley Dairying Exemplified 119 The Runnet Plant..English Names, are yellow ladies bedstraw or Cheese renning, or petty muguet. 1820 J. Sowerby Eng. Bot. (at cited word) Rough Marsh Bed straw. 1854 S. Thomson Wanderings among Wild Flowers i. 68 In the bedstraws..we count four stamens. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < |
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