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单词 popes head
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pope's headn.

Brit. /ˈpəʊps hɛd/, U.S. /ˈpoʊps ˌ(h)ɛd/
Forms: 1600s–1700s popes-head, 1700s– pope's head, 1800s popes' head. Also with capital initial(s).
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: pope n.1, head n.1
Etymology: < the genitive of pope n.1 + head n.1
1. Chiefly Caribbean. Any of several melon cacti (genus Melocactus), which bear their flowers on a woolly terminal structure; esp. M. intortus, a native of the West Indies (also called Turk's cap, Turk's head).
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the world > plants > particular plants > cactus and allies > [noun] > melon-cactus
pope's head1699
melon thistle1725
Turk's head1725
Melocactus1731
Turk's cap1731
melon-cactus1845
1699 L. Wafer New Voy. & Descr. Isthmus Amer. 27 Fenced with hollow Bamboes, Popes-heads and Prickle-pears.
1718 R. Bradley New Improvem. Planting & Gardening: Pt. 3 v. 277 There is now one of these Plants in the Stove at Hampton-Court; it is called in Barbadoes, Popes-Head, or Turks-Cap.
1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Melocactus The common or large Melon-Thistle, commonly call'd Turk-cap or Pope's-Head in the West-Indies.
1789 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica (new ed.) ii. 238 Cactus... The Turk's-head, or Pope's-head Indian Fig.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 733 M[elocactus] communis, the Turk's-cap Cactus,..sometimes called Englishman's Head, or Pope's Head.
1926 W. Fawcett & A. B. Rendle Flora Jamaica V. 283 Turk's Head, Turk's Cap, Pope's Head, Melon Thistle.
1996 Mem. N.Y. Bot. Garden 78 149 Melocactus intortus..Common names: barrel cactus, pope's head, turk's cap.
2. A long-handled broom with a round brush, for sweeping ceilings, etc. Cf. Turk's head n. 3. Now rare.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > brushing or sweeping > [noun] > brush or broom
besomc1000
bast broom1357
brush1377
broom14..
sweepc1475
duster1575
bristle brush1601
broom-besom1693
flag-broom1697
stock-brush1700
whisk1745
birch-broom1747
hair-broom1753
spry1796
corn-broomc1810
pope's head1824
whisker1825
sweeping-brusha1828
swish1844
spoke-brush1851
whisk broom1857
Turk's head1859
wisp1875
tube-brush1877
bass-broom?1881
crumb-brush1884
dusting-brush1907
palmetto brush1913
suede brush1915
swale1949
1769 Batchelor I. 24 What, with the prodigious quantity of false hair, and wool clapt in to fill the curls, her head resembles a mop, or a pope's head, to brush down cobwebs.
1817 M. Edgeworth Love & Law i. iii, in Comic Dramas 41 You're no witch, indeed, if you don't see a cobweb as long as my arm. Run, run, child, for the Pope's head.
1824 W. Scott Let. 12 Feb. (1935) VIII. 178 What sweeping is required is most easily performed by a brush like what the housemaids call a pope's head.
1890 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. Eng. 18th Cent. (ed. 2) VIII. xxix. 60 The long mops known as ‘Popes' heads’ were made use of as pike handles.
1925 Times Recorder (Zanesville, Ohio) 12 Sept. (Daily Mag. page) The round brush is known as the Pope's head and is used to clean the outsides of windows also.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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