| 单词 | piripiri bur |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspiripiri bur 1. Any of several perennial trailing and creeping plants of the genus Acaena (family Rosaceae), with pinnate leaves and fruits in the form of burs; esp. A. anserinifolia of Australia and New Zealand. More fully piripiri bur. Cf. biddy-biddy n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > climbing or creeping plants > non-British climbing or creeping plants > [noun] > Australasian kareao1845 Kennedya1845 piripiri1853 balloon vine1889 wonga(-wonga) vine1895 Australian bluebell creeper1896 coral-pea1896 running postman1898 1853 J. D. Hooker Bot. Antarctic Voy.: Flora Novæ-Zelandiæ I. 54 Acaena Sanguisorbae..Nat. names, ‘Hutiwai’, Middle Island, Lyall; ‘Pirikahu’ and ‘Piri piri’. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 5/2 A decoction of A. Sanguisorba is used in New Zealand as tea and as a medicine. It is the Piri Piri of the natives. 1910 L. Cockayne N.Z. Plants vi. 97 A piripiri, too (Acaena glabra), is almost confined to this station. 1956 D. McClintock & R. S. R. Fitter Pocket Guide Wild Flowers 74 Pirri-pirri Bur, Acaena anserinifolia (Forster) Druce. 1980 R. J. Berry & J. L. Johnston Nat. Hist. Shetland (1986) 289 (table) Pirripirri Bur. Formerly by a roadside near Scalloway. 1998 Evening Standard (Palmerston North, N.Z.) (Nexis) 24 Feb. 14 Some New Zealand natives have found a happy new home in Britain... Piripiri burr and Campylopus introflexus are some of about a dozen naturalised aliens in England. < as lemmas |
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