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单词 pennywort
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pennywortn.

Brit. /ˈpɛnɪwəːt/, U.S. /ˈpɛniwərt/, /ˈpɛniˌwɔrt/
Forms: see penny n. and wort n.1; also Middle English benigwrt (transmission error), Middle English penewi (transmission error), Middle English penyewrytte, Middle English penywyt.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: penny n., wort n.1
Etymology: < penny n. + wort n.1, so called on account of the appearance of the leaves. Compare penny-grass n.
Any of various plants with small round leaves; spec.
a. More fully wall pennywort. Navelwort, Umbilicus rupestris (family Crassulaceae), having round peltate leaves and tending to grow in the crevices of rocks and walls.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Crassulaceae (stonecrop and allies) > [noun] > navelwort
pennywortc1300
wall penny-grassa1400
navelwortc1450
wall penny grass1562
Venus' navel1592
hipwort1597
sea-navel1597
sea-navelwort1597
sea-pennywort1597
Venus' garden1597
cotyledon1601
kidneywort1640
Venus's navelwort1678
penny pie1707
acetabulum1727
penny leaf1782
pancakes1882
c1300 in T. Hunt Pop. Med. 13th-cent. Eng. (1990) 228 (MED) Contra tussim: Recipe de peniwrt m. i et m. 2 de watercars.
a1350 Recipe Painting in Archæol. Jrnl. (1844) 1 65 For gaude-grene, Tac peniwort other gladene, whether thu wolte of the two erbes, ant tempre thi verdigres.
a1400 Alphita (Selden) (1887) 41 Cimbalaria..umbilicus ueneris, idem. angl. penigres uel penywyt [v.r. penywert].
c1475 ( Surg. Treat. in MS Wellcome 564 f. 118v (MED) If þou hast not watir of rose, take þe iuys of morel, or of endiue..penywort, purcelane..or ellis sum oþir colde herbe þat is of þe same kynde.
1597 W. Langham Garden of Health 474 Wall Peniwort, is good against all inflammations and hote tumors, S. Antonies fire, and kibed heeles being applied.
1614 G. Markham Cheape & Good Husbandry i. xxx. 79 The grasse which is vnwholesome for Sheepe, is that which hath growing amongst it, Spearewort, Pennywort, or Penny-grasse.
1757 Philos. Trans. 1756 (Royal Soc.) 49 832 Wall Penny-wort, Kidney-wort; Leicestriensibus Navel-wort.
1858 G. H. Lewes Sea-side Stud. 189 From the crevices peep the stone-crop, the leaves of the foxglove, pennywort, and..other wall loving plants.
1899 Living Age 5 Aug. 381/1 There are many others, of which the snapdragon, the yellow sedum, the wall pennywort, and the pretty little..whitlow-grass, will occur to all.
1965 M. Spark Mandelbaum Gate (1967) iii. 77 It's called penny-wort, commonly. The botanical name is Cotyledon umbilicus.
1996 R. Mabey Flora Britannica 177/2 As a child I used to make tiny Victorian posies in the leaves of pennywort.
1997 C. N. Page Ferns of Brit. & Ireland (ed. 2) 66/2 A[splenium] billotii grows with other common lanebank species including Ivy (Hedera helix), Wall Pennywort (Umbilicus rupestris) [etc.].
b. More fully marsh pennywort, water pennywort. A small creeping plant with round undivided leaves, Hydrocotyle vulgaris (family Apiaceae ( Umbelliferae)), growing in marshy places. Also: any of various other plants of the genus Hydrocotyle. Cf. penny-grass n. 3, penny-rot n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > aquatic, marsh, and sea-shore plants > [noun] > marsh pennywort
sheep-killing penny-grass?1523
wood-nep1526
pennywort1578
sheep-killing pennygrass1578
fluke-wort1597
penny-rot1597
sheep's bane1597
white rot1597
fairies' table1878
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. xxv. 37 Bycause of a certayne similitude..that it hath with Pennywurte of the wall, we do call [it] water Pennywurte [Fr. Nombril de Venus coissant és eaux, Du. Water Navelcruyt].
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 424 Water Pennywoort is called..in English Sheepes killing Pennygrasse, Penny rot.
1651 R. Child Large Let. in S. Hartlib Legacie 100 That Rottennesse proceedeth from a plant called Cotyledon, or Marsh-Penny-wort, which is of a very sharpe taste, and therefore not likely that Sheepe will eate it.
1670 J. Ray Catalogus Plantarum Angliæ 84 Cotyledon aquatica... Marsh-Pennywort, White Rot. In paludosis.
1761 B. Stillingfleet Cal. Flora 27 June Marsh pennywort, Hydrocotule vulgaris.
1791 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 3 165 Hydrocotyle americana, Penny-wort.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 606/1 H[ydrocotyle] vulgaris, common Pennywort, is one of the few British plants which have peltate leaves.
1875 Amer. Naturalist 9 388 In the water, beside many of the grasses and sedges, are found pennywort [etc.].
1885 Outing 7 179/1 All the ground about is carpeted with the light-green leaves of the marsh-pennywort.
1927 Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 54 158 On the bottom is a luxuriant growth of water pennywort, Hydrocotyle umbellata L.
1966 A. Batten & H. Bokelmann Wild Flowers Eastern Cape 111 Hydrocotyle verticillata Thunb. (Waternavel, Pennywort).
1979 D. Spence Shetland's Living Landscape 28 Dune slacks form another close-cropped sward in which brown bent..is abundant with..silverweed and pennywort, Hydrocotyle vulgaris.
1985 C. A. Sinker et al. Ecol. Flora Shropshire Region ii. v. 92 The vegetation includes mesotropic, marsh species such as marsh pennywort and marsh cinquefoil.
2005 D. W. Imm & K. W. McLeod in J. C. Kilgo & J. I. Blake Ecol. & Managem. Forested Landscape iv. 157 Water pennywort occurs along infrequently flooded streamsides.
c. A small North American plant with thick, roundish upper leaves, Obolaria virginica (family Gentianaceae).
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Gentianaceae (gentians) > [noun]
gentianOE
fieldwooda1393
baldmoney1393
caresweeta1400
felwort1526
calathian violet1578
crosswort gentian1578
harvest-bell1597
gentianella1633
blue violet1649
marsh gentian1690
vernal gentian1728
pennywort1817
meadow pink1827
soap-gentian1845
soapwort gentian1845
autumn-bells1863
windflower1866
willow gentian1883
1817 A. Eaton Man. Bot. 69 Obolaria..virginica, (penny-wort).
1908 B. L. Robinson & M. L. Fernald Gray's Man. Bot. (ed. 7) 660 Obolaria L., Pennywort.
1934 Amer. Midland Naturalist 15 59 Gentianaceae..Obolaria virginica L. Pennywort.
1972 C. A. Brown Wildflowers Louisiana & Adjoining States 138 Pennywort, Obolaria virginica.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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