单词 | pookneedle |
释义 | pookneedlen. English regional in later use. Any of several plants having needle-like or long-beaked fruits, esp. either of the storksbills, Erodium cicutarium and E. moschatum, and the shepherd's needle, Scandix pecten-veneris; the pointed seed vessel of such a plant. Cf. puckle's needle n. at puckle n. Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Umbelliferae (umbellifers) > [noun] > shepherd's needle pookneedlea1425 shepherd's needle1562 needle chervil1578 wild chervil1578 lady's comb1597 Venus needle1597 Venus's comb1597 pink needle1611 crow-needle1733 needle1793 Adam's Needle1872 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > geranium and allied flowers > allied flowers > stork's bill ground-needlea1400 pookneedlea1425 pink needle1548 stork's bill1562 heronsbill1578 moschata1578 musk cranesbill1640 Muscovy1648 musk stork's-bill1853 pin clover1880 a1425 in T. Hunt Plant Names Medieval Eng. (1989) 7 [Acus Demonis] puk-nedel, styke-pilor. a1500 Agnus Castus (Harl.) (1950) 132 (MED) Pouknedle [v.rr. poukedenel; pyckenedle; ?a1450 Stockh. Acus de-menys is an herbe þat men clepe pounntnedele]. 1636 J. Gerard & T. Johnson Herball (ed. 2) ii. ccclix. 941 It [sc. Geranium moschatum] is called..in English, Musked Storkesbill..and of the vulgar sort muschata, and also Pick-needle. 1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. 564 Puck-needle is a weed that is often abundant on such lands as are hard tilled. 1836 W. D. Cooper Gloss. Provinc. Sussex 27 Pookneedle, cocle, an injurious weed. 1853 W. D. Cooper Gloss. Provincialisms Sussex (ed. 2) 67 Pookneedle, cockle, or Shepherd's needle... The sharpened end of the seed vessel of the wild geranium, probably fairies' needle..; called Beggar's needle in Worcestershire. 1861 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. III. 77 Common Shepherd's needle... These fruits are bright green..and sharp enough to merit the names applied to the plant of..Pucker-needle [etc.]. 1878 Folk-lore Rec. 1 27 The sharp end of the seed-vessel of the needle scandix (S. pecten), called here by the common people ‘the pookneedle’ may have been regarded as belonging to the fairies. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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