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单词 potentilla
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potentillan.

Brit. /ˌpəʊt(ə)nˈtɪlə/, U.S. /ˌpoʊt(ə)nˈtɪlə/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin potentilla.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin potentilla, the name of a plant, probably first recorded in an undated glossary where it may already denote Potentilla anserina, also applied before 1500 to the Garden Valerian or Phu (see examples below) < classical Latin potent- , potēns potent adj.1 + -illa -illa suffix. Compare French potentille (1605).Compare the following examples of post-classical Latin potentilla in glossaries:c1300 Simon Januensis Synonyma Medicinae lf. 9/1 Amantila, potentilla fu valleriana idem.a1400 Alphita (Selden) (1887) 150 Portentilla, amantilla idem.a1400 Alphita (Selden) (1887) 69 Fu, ualeriana, amantilla, ueneria, portentilla.
Botany.
Originally: the plant silverweed, Potentilla anserina. In later use: (in form Potentilla) a genus of the family Rosaceae, comprising herbs and shrubs native chiefly to north temperate zones, having five-petalled, usually yellow or white flowers; (also potentilla) any plant of this genus.Valid publication of the genus name: Linnaeus Species Plantarum (1753) I. 495.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > rosaceous plants > [noun] > potentilla or cinquefoil
quinquefoileOE
five-leafc1000
goose-grassa1400
camorochec1440
five-leaved grass1526
tansyc1530
cinquefoil1538
potentilla1548
five-fingered grass1562
agrimony1578
silverweed1578
goose-tansy1597
silver grass1600
silverwort1611
five-finger-grass1640
midsummer silvera1697
strawberry cinquefoil1753
Scotch cinquefoil1789
goose-weed1865
five-finger1866
fair days1884
fair-grass1884
potentil1884
1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. H.iiij Portentilla or as some write Potentilla, is named also Tanacetum syluestre..in englyshe wylde Tansey.
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. cclxviii. 841 It [sc. wilde tansie or silver-weed] is likewise called Potentilla.
1659 R. Lovell Παμβοτανολογια 455 at Tansie The Wild Potentilla.
1676 T. Sherley tr. V. A. Moellenbrock Cochlearia Curiosa 19 Potentilla, wilde Tansie, from its great Vertues, as if one said potens, or powerful; it is also called Argentina, chiefly from the silvery shining of its leavs being dryed.
1754 New & Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. III. 2511/1 Potentilla, Silverweed, wild-tansey, or cinquefoil, in botany, a genus of the icosandria pentagynia class of plants.
1765 Philos. Trans. 1764 (Royal Soc.) 54 95 The several kinds of Potentillas are here very rare.
1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) II. 477 Which confirms the opinion of those who maintain that Potentilla and Tormentilla are not distinct genera.
1867 H. Macmillan Bible Teachings (1870) ii. 30 Golden geums and potentillas gleamed like miniature suns.
1883 G. Allen in Longman's Mag. July 306 The potentillas are a group of very lowly and primitive roses.
1932 C. D. Darlington Rec. Adv. in Cytol. xv. 434 Moderate or even high pollen fertility is sometimes found in the pseudogamous Potentilla species.
1985 Gardening from Which? Nov. 377/2 The potentilla spreading over the path adds another dimension.
1991 Nature Canada Summer 38/1 The grey, ice-scoured gravel beaches which give rise to thin stems of delicate poppies, clumps of yellow potentilla, and fragrant bouquets of purple jacob's ladder.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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