| 单词 | partridgeberry vine |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspartridgeberry vine 1. Any of several small North American evergreen plants with red berries which are eaten by wild birds: (a) Mitchella repens, a trailing woodland plant of the family Rubiaceae; also partridgeberry vine; (the usual sense); (b) the wintergreen or checkerberry, Gaultheria procumbens; (c) Newfoundland the lingonberry, a northern variety of cowberry or mountain cranberry, Vaccinium vitis-idaea var. minus. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > preparations treating or preventing specific ailments > [noun] > for dropsy > plant derived partridgeberry1714 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > tree or plant producing edible berries > partridge-berry partridgeberry1714 mitchella1785 winter clover1807 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 1714 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 29 63 He treats of the Plants of America... Another Plant, which goes by the Name of Partridge-berries, excellent in curing the Dropsy. 1785 M. Cutler in Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. 1 410 Mitchella... Partridgeberry. The stems trailing. Leaves orbicular-cordate. 1814 J. Bigelow Florula Bostoniensis 101 Gaultheria procumbens. Partridge Berry... A plant universally known for its pleasant, aromatic flavour. 1853 Anglo-Amer. Mag. 2 183/1 That elegant little plant Mitchella repens, sometimes called partridge-berry. 1868 H. W. Beecher Norwood 91 Here the little queen took on airs, and sent her Ethiop..[for] some partridge-berry vines from the edge of the wood. 1875 T. Hill True Order Stud. 81 Our American plant Gaultheria is called in some sections Winter~green,..in others Partridge-berry. 1905 F. W. Reed Rep. Examination Forest Tract Western N. Carolina (Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric., Bureau Forestry, No. 60) 14 The ground cover is chiefly partridge berry, club moss, wood sorrel, ferns, and mosses. 1913 W. P. Eaton Barn Doors & Byways 245 We have come upon ferns still flaunting through the snow and partridge berry vines; scratched up into sight by some hungry bird. 1936 H. Gilbert-Carter Brit. Trees & Shrubs 232 G. procumbens L. Partridge Berry (eastern North America). A creeping species with short, erect stems. 1960 J. J. Rowlands Spindrift iii. 161 On drier land, we also found the mountain or rock cranberry, which is known as the partridge berry in Newfoundland. 1982 N.Y. Times 11 Apr. ii. 33/4 Partridgeberry..is often used in terrariums for its evergreen foliage and red berries. 1992 Amer. Horticulturist May 3/3 At least 25 common names have been assigned to V. vitis-idaea: Americans may know it better as mountain cranberry, moss cranberry, partridgeberry, cowberry, or foxberry. < as lemmas |
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