| 单词 | prickly comfrey |
| 释义 | > as lemmasprickly comfrey prickly comfrey n. S. asperrimum, a native of the Caucasus, cultivated for its handsome blue flowers, and also as a forage-plant.extracted from comfreyn.prickly comfrey prickly comfrey n. a blue-flowered, very bristly comfrey, Symphytum asperum, native to the Caucasus and grown elsewhere for ornament and formerly as a fodder plant. ΚΠ 1862 Chambers's Encycl. III. 150/2 The Prickly C[omfrey], S. asperrimum, a native of Siberia,..has been highly recommended for feeding cattle. 1914 C. V. Piper Forage Plants & their Culture 580 The seed of prickly comfrey is not very satisfactory so the plant is usually propagated by divisions of the crown or by sections of the taproot. 2004 Guardian (Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island) (Nexis) 6 Jan. (Voice for Island Seniors section) 18 There are several different species of comfrey, two of which are already prohibited from being used in therapeutic products in Canada because they contain echimidine: prickly comfrey and Russian comfrey. < as lemmas |
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