单词 | potentilla |
释义 | potentillan. 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. ΘΚΠ 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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