单词 | pearly everlasting |
释义 | > as lemmaspearly everlasting pearly everlasting n. a white-tomentose plant, Anaphalis margaritacea (family Asteraceae ( Compositae)), with flowers enclosed by scarious pearly-white involucral bracts, which is native to North America and northern Asia and grown in gardens as an ‘everlasting’; (in wider sense) any plant of the genus Anaphalis. ΚΠ 1798 C. Marshall Introd. Knowl. & Pract. Gardening (ed. 2) xix. xi. 342 Eternal flower, pearly, or white everlasting, r. June. 1872 1st Rep. Vermont State Board Agric. 1871–2 281 Pearly everlasting, a perennial, occupies the knolls of cool, hill pastures. 1993 Amer. Forests (Nexis) 99 42 We identified ginseng and goose-looted maple, and collected butternuts. I found pearly everlasting, painted trillium, and evening primrose. < as lemmas |
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