单词 | prick-madam |
释义 | prick-madamn. Now chiefly historical and English regional. Any of several stonecrops (genus Sedum); esp. biting stonecrop, S. acre, and reflexed stonecrop, S. reflexum. Cf. pricket n. 4, trick-madam n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Crassulaceae (stonecrop and allies) > [noun] > stonecrop sengreenc1000 stonecropc1000 orpine?a1300 orval?a1300 mouse grassc1300 stonehorea1400 Crassulac1400 sedumc1440 thrift1538 prick-madam1542 mousetail1548 livelong1578 wall pepper1578 worm-grass1578 country pepper1597 jack of the buttery1597 pricket1597 stone-pepper1597 trick-madam1600 trip-madam1693 midsummer mena1697 rosewort1725 roseroot1731 live forever1760 ice plant1818 wall moss1855 Jacka1876 wall grass1882 thick-leaf1884 the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > leaf vegetables > [noun] > stonecrop stonecropc1000 prick-madam1542 trick-madam1600 trip-madam1693 1542 T. Elyot Bibliotheca Aizoon, an herbe called..singrene or houseleeke... The lesse..is called in english pricke madame. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. lxxvii. 114 Prickmadame [Fr. triquemadame] hath small narrow thicke and sharpe poynted leaues. 1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum 735 Wee [call it] in English Prickmadam, Stonecrop or Great Stonecrop,..Stonehore and Mousetaile. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 73/2 Leaves long and slender, and thick, like Prick-my-dame. 1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Sedum Sedum minus, luteum, folio acuto. C.B.P. The most ordinary Prickmadam, or sharp-pointed Yellow Houseleek. 1795 J. Berkenhout Synopsis Nat. Hist. Great Brit. & Irel. (ed. 3) II. 139 Prick-madam... Leaves numerous, scattered, thick, ending in a sharp point. 1883 Cassell's Family Mag. Oct. 672/2 Sweet country flowers..pansy, rose, lady-smock, prick-madam, &c. 1900 W. Dickinson & E. W. Prevost Gloss. Dial. Cumberland 203/2 Love in a chain, Prick madam, Crooked Yellow Stonecrop—Sedum reflexum. 1955 G. Grigson Englishman's Flora 182 Prick-madam was the name used [for the Yellow Stonecrop] in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. 1978 Verbatim May 2/2 I have never grown stonecrop; now that I know it as prickmadam I am tempted to try. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1542 |
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