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单词 one-berry
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one-berryn.

Brit. /ˈwʌnˌbɛri/, U.S. /ˈwənˌbɛri/
Forms: see one adj. and berry n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: one adj., berry n.1
Etymology: < one adj. + berry n.1
1. The plant herb Paris, Paris quadrifolia, in which a single black berry succeeds the solitary green flower. Now rare.It is doubtful that the name has ever been in popular use for this plant.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Liliaceae family or plants > [noun] > herb Paris
true lovec1390
four-leaved grassc1450
one-berry1548
herb Paris1578
herb true-love1597
1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. A.vv Pardalianches, whiche we may call in englishe Libardbayne or one bery.
1568 W. Turner Herbal iii. 35 The herbe that I call one berrye hath a rounde stalke..and in the top of the stalke about a rounde black berrye come out foure smal leaves.
1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) at Herb Paris An Herb otherwise called True Knot or One Berry, the Leaves whereof grow like a True-lovers Knot, with a Berry in the midst.
1778 G. White Let. 3 July in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 235 [I found] Paris quadrifolia, herb Paris, true-love, or one-berry.
1918 W. Graveson Brit. Wild Flowers (1919) ix. 76 Its [sc. Herb Paris's] unattractive green sepals and insignificant petals do not suggest a kinship with Lily of the Valley..the black ovary in the centre becomes a berry, hence the country name of One Berry.
2. U.S. Any of several plants with single or apparently single berries: (a) the partridgeberry, Mitchella repens; (b) the Indian turnip or Jack-in-the-pulpit, Arisaema triphyllum; (c) the checkerberry, Gaultheria procumbens.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > medicinal trees or shrubs > [noun] > non-British medicinal trees or shrubs > wintergreen shrubs
wintergreen1778
mountain tea1785
spice-berry1792
partridgeberry1814
tea-berry1818
ivory plum1828
twinberry1836
ivy-berry1840
partridge bush1843
Gaultheria1848
checker-berry1852
partridge-vine1860
snowberry1866
one-berry1873
1873 in A. B. W. Miller Shaker Herbs (1976) 239 Squaw Vine—Mitchella repens..Partridge Berry..One Berry.
1877 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 4) 319 Jack-in-the-Pulpit. (Arisæna triphyllum)... In Connecticut, it is called One-berry.
1892 Jrnl. Amer. Folk-lore 5 100 Gaultheria procumbens, one-berry.
1931 M. Grieve Mod. Herbal II. 766 Mitchella repens... Partridgeberry, Checkerberry, Winter Clover, Deerberry, One-berry.
1971 A. Krochmal Guide Med. Plants Appalachia 176 Mitchella repens..Partridgeberry..one berry..winter clover.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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