单词 | plant name |
释义 | > as lemmasplant name plant name n. ΚΠ 1863 R. C. A. Prior On Pop. Names Brit. Plants pp. xxiii Popular plant names..arise with a higher and more educated class of society, and merely survive in a lower, after they have elsewhere become obsolete. 1935 M. E. Houtzager Unconscious Sound- & Sense-Assimilations 14 Plant-names that have been changed. 1992 Nat. World Spring 28/4 Some [plant names] are simply baffling on first acquaintance, like the longest of our local plant names ‘welcome-home-husband-though-never-so-drunk’ for house-leek. < as lemmas |
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