单词 | osyris |
释义 | Osyrisn. Botany. Originally: any of several plants used medicinally, probably including toadflax ( Linaria species), summer cypress, Bassia scoparia, and the shrub Osyris alba. Later: a genus of evergreen shrubs of the family Santalaceae, native to the Mediterranean region, eastern Asia, and Africa, having narrow entire leaves, small stalked flowers, and roundish drupes.Valid publication of the genus name: Linnaeus Species Plantarum (1753) II. 1022. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > other shrubs > [noun] moorworteOE bean-trefoil1551 Osyris1562 bladder-nut1578 anagre1608 peasecod tree1611 firebush1639 Colutea1664 savin1697 houseleek-tree1732 Volkameria1753 Andromeda1760 bladder-senna1785 fringe-myrtle1866 thyrse-flower1866 eranthemum1882 nitre bush1884 ilima1888 1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 73 The brothe of Osyris dronken is good agaynst ye iaundes or guel sought. 1597 J. Gerard Herball iii. 443 Scoparia, or after Dodoneus Osyris, which the Italians call Belvidere. 1634 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World (new ed.) I. xxvii. xii. 286 Osyris putteth forth small branches of a browne colour, slender, pliable, and easie to wind; the same be garnished with leaues resembling those of Line or flax. 1728 R. Bradley Dict. Botanicum Linaria magna, by some call'd Osyris, is the Belvidere Italorum, and Scoparia of Parkinson. 1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 323 Poet's Cassia, Osyris. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 828/1 Osyris, a genus of some half-dozen species of Santalaceæ, inhabiting widely separated regions of the eastern hemisphere. 1956 Dict. Gardening (Royal Hort. Soc.) (ed. 2) III. 1455/1 Osyris (name used by Dioscorides). fam. Santalaceae. A genus of a few glabrous evergreen shrubs. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1562 |
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