单词 | parsley piert |
释义 | parsley piertn. Either of two low-growing annuals of the genus Aphanes (family Rosaceae), with fan-shaped, deeply palmate or trifid leaves and minute green axillary flowers; esp. A. arvensis, found on sandy or bare ground and as an arable weed. Formerly also: †annual knawel, Scleranthus annuus (obsolete). Cf. parsley breakstone n. at parsley n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > rosaceous plants > [noun] > parsley-piert alchemilla1526 argentil1597 parsley piert1597 passe-pierre1597 percepier1597 parsley breakstone1633 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 454 Knawel, which herbe is called (as I saide before) Parsley Piert. 1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum iv. xvi. 449 I shewed you before that the word Parsly pert, was but a corruption of time in the vulgar sort, and Percepier also, derived from the French word Percepierre, which..signifieth as much as pierce stone, or breakestone in English. 1728 R. Bradley Dict. Botanicum Polygonum selinoides, Parsleypert, or Parsley Breakstone. 1777 J. Lightfoot Flora Scotica I. 121 [Aphanes arvensis] Parsley-Piert. Anglis. 1855 G. Emerson Farmer's & Planter's Encycl. Rural Affairs (new ed.) 695/2 Field ladies' mantle, or parsley piert (A. arvensis). 1885 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester (1886) 253 Parsley-perk, the plant Alchemilla arvensis. Mobberley. 1886 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names 370 Parsley Pert, or Piert, Alchemilla arvensis, Scop. 1888 S. O. Addy Gloss. Words Sheffield 170 Parsley peat or peeat, a kind of wild parsley. Alchemilla arvensis. 1913 D. H. Lawrence Sons & Lovers iii. 46 He had hanging in the attic great bunches of dried herbs: wormwood, rue, horehound, elder-flowers, parsley-purt, marshmallow, [etc.]. 1948 Jrnl. Ecol. 36 166 Alchemilla arvensis (parsley piert) appeared in samples from four arable fields. 1987 W. Scott & R. Palmer Flowering Plants & Ferns of Shetland Isles 179 Aphanes microcarpa.., Slender Parsley-piert. 1996 Guardian 28 Dec. i. 20/6 Also verdant along the pathside was another oddly-named little plant, parsley piert, forming delicately-beautiful pale green mats. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1597 |
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