单词 | pennywort |
释义 | pennywortn. 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). ΘΚΠ 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). < n.c1300 |
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