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单词 adam and eve
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Adam and Even.

Brit. /ˌadəm (ə)n(d) ˈiːv/, U.S. /ˌædəm ən ˈiv/
Origin: From proper names, combined with an English element. Etymons: proper name Adam , and conj.1, proper name Eve.
Etymology: < the name of Adam, the first man in the biblical account (see Adam n.1) + and conj.1 + the name of Eve, the first woman in the biblical account (see Eve n.1).For the likely reasons for the name in senses 1, 2, and 3 see quots. 1896 and 1999 at sense 1, quot. 1997 at sense 2, and quots. 1917 and 1993 at sense 3.
I. As the name of a plant.
1. North American. Any of several similar North American orchids, esp. the putty-root, Aplectrum hyemale, with a tuber formerly (and sometimes still) used medicinally or carried to protect the bearer from harm.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > orchids
satyrionOE
bollockwort?a1300
sanicle14..
bollock?a1425
martagon1548
orchis1559
dogstones1562
hare's-ballocks1562
stone1562
bollock grass1578
dog's cods1578
dog's cullions1578
double-leaf1578
fly-orchis1578
goat's cullions1578
goat's orchis1578
priest's pintle1578
twayblade1578
bee-orchis1597
bifoil1597
bird's nest1597
bird's orchis1597
butterfly orchis1597
fenny-stones1597
gelded satyrion1597
gnat satyrion1597
humble-bee orchis1597
lady's slipper1597
sweet ballocks1597
two-blade1605
cullions1611
bee-flower1626
fly-flower1640
man orchis1670
musk orchis1670
moccasin flower1680
gnat-flower1688
faham tea1728
Ophrys1754
green man orchis1762
Arethusa1764
honey flower1771
cypripedium1775
rattlesnake plantain1778
Venus's slipper1785
Adam and Eve1789
lizard orchis179.
epidendrum1791
Pogonia?1801
Vanda1801
cymbidium1815
Oncidium1822
putty-root1822
Noah's Ark1826
yellow moccasin1826
gongora1827
cattleya1828
green man1828
nervine1828
stanhopea1829
dove-flower1831
catasetum1836
Odontoglossum1836
Miltonia1837
letter plant1838
spread eagle1838
letter-leaf1839
swan-plant1841
orchid1843
disa1844
masdevallia1845
Phalaenopsis1846
faham1850
Indian crocus1850
moccasin plant1850
pleione1851
dove orchis1852
nerve root1854
Holy Ghost flower1862
basket-plant1865
lizard's tongue1866
mousetail1866
Sobralia1866
swan-neck1866
swanwort1866
Indian shoe1876
odontoglot1879
wreathewort1879
moth orchid1880
rattlesnake orchid1881
dendrobe1882
dove-plant1882
Madeira orchis1882
man orchis1882
swan-flower1884
slipper-orchid1885
slipper orchis1889
mayflower1894
scorpion orchid1897
moederkappie1910
dove orchid1918
monkey orchid1925
man orchid1927
1789 B. Rush Let. 8 June in T. J. Pettigrew Mem. J. C. Lettsom (1817) II. 439 Some of the country people call it Adam-and-Eve.
1806 B. M'Mahon Amer. Gardener's Cal. 599 Hardy Bulbous and Tuberous Rooted Flowering Plants... Ophrys hyemalis. Adam and Eve Ophrys.
1822 A. Eaton Man. Bot. (ed. 3) ii. 250 Corallorhiza..hyemalis..adam and eve, putty root... A cement resembling putty may be made of the root.
1896 Meehans' Monthly Mar. 48 The fact that the corms most frequently appear in pairs has gained for it, one of our strangest orchids, the appellation Adam-and-Eve.
1937 M. Satterfield in C. L. Perdue et al. Weevils in Wheat (1976) 246 Git somebody to git you some Adam an' Eve root an' some Sweet William root an' carry dese roots in yo' pocket all de time, an' nobody kin git next to you.
1959 Times 30 Dec. 8/7 A woman will carry a piece of Adam-and-Eve root in a little bag round her neck. It's really Aplecteum hyemale, useful in bronchial troubles.
1999 D. R. Kurz Ozark Wildflowers 244/2 Another common name, Adam-and-Eve, comes from the plant's production of a new corm each year that is connected by a slender branch to the old one.
2. Originally English regional. The wild arum or cuckoo pint, Arum maculatum; the flower of this plant. Now rare.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Araceae (wake-robin and allies) > [noun]
dragonsc1000
cuckoo-pintlea1400
yekestersea1400
aaron?c1425
calf's-footc1450
cuckoo-spitc1450
rampa1500
priest's hood1526
wake-robin1530
green dragon1538
arum1551
cuckoo-pint1551
dragonwort1565
priest's pintle1578
tarragon1591
starch root1596
friar's cowl1597
friar's-hood1597
starchwort1597
dragon serpentine1598
dragon's-herb1600
small dragonwort1674
dumb cane1696
skunk weed1735
polecat weed1743
lords and ladies1755
mucka-mucka1769
skunk cabbage1778
bloody man's finger1787
green dragon1789
swamp-cabbage1792
priest in the pulpit1837
orontiad1846
arad1853
cows and calves1853
bulls and cows1863
skunk cabbage1869
aroid1876
Adam and Eve1877
stallion1878
cunjevoi1889
1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. Adam and Eve.., the flowers of the Arum maculatum.
1906 Country Life 21 Apr. 553/2 Adam-and-Eve and Bobbin-and-Joan are sometimes used instead of Lords-and-Ladies, and have the same reference.
1922 Chatterbox 235/2Adam and Eve’ is one of the many names of the wild Arum, known to children as ‘lords-and-ladies,’ ‘cuckoo-pint’.
1997 A. Overy Sex in your Garden v. 72/1 This plant is also called Adam-and-Eve, and these quaint old folk names could refer to the phallic appearance of the long spadix in the middle of the flower, surrounded by an enveloping sheath.
3. Originally English regional. The monkshood, Aconitum napellus. Now rare.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > poisonous or harmful plants > [noun] > aconite or wolf's bane
monk's cowl1548
wolf's-bane1548
flint-wort1567
libardine1567
aconite1569
wolf's-wort1575
napellus1576
monkshood1578
napelo1580
helmet-flower1597
scorpion1601
napell1605
wolfwort1611
monk's-head1682
panther's bane1712
blue rocketa1825
bikh1830
friar's cap1830
fox-bane1840
Turk's cap1854
Adam and Eve1879
face-in-hood1886
1879 Literary World (Boston) 10 May 155/3Adam and Eve’ is applied to three species of orchis; to pulmonaria officinalis, L.; and to aconitum napellus, L., as well as to arum.
1917 Domest. Bee-keeper 1 Jan. 28/1 Their [sc. the nectaries] presence within the hood, just as two people might be in a room—has given the plant the curious name of ‘Adam and Eve’.
1993 R. Hendrickson Ladybugs, Tiger Lilies & Wallflowers 3 Other plants named Adam-and-Eve include the dogtooth violet, because its plant bears a large and a small flower at the same time, and the common ‘monkshood’.
II. With reference to Adam and Eve as progenitors of the human race.
4. A starting point, an origin; a set of progenitors, ancestors, or forebears.
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the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > [noun] > starting-point
terminus a quo1549
starting place1570
terma1628
salient motion1664
salient pointa1682
punctum saliens1695
starting point1782
Adam and Eve1793
starting ground1802
point of departure1804
baseline1836
point de départ1848
zero1849
start point1860
jumping-board1878
jumping-off board1914
jumping-off point1927
starting block1932
square one1952
1793 T. Digges Let. 10 Mar. in J. Catanzariti Papers T. Jefferson (1992) XXV. 349 The Matrasses (which are the Adam and Eve for Casting medals or Coins) being obtaind, the multiplication of dies, and the hardening them..is to be learnt.
1809 Q. Rev. Nov. 322 During that unhappy war for which we have cause to feel shame..a Grenadier said of the Americans, ‘the Adam and Eve of this young nation came out of Newgate’.
1838 New Monthly Mag. 53 545 We are now approaching the paradise of the oysterian Adam and Eve..the locality of the first fossil occurrence of the ostrea leviuscula.
1906 Cambrian Oct. 417/2 They [sc. Republicanism and Democracy] are the Adam and Eve of American history.
1941 H. Levin James Joyce iii. i. 143 Since form and matter are father and mother, the Adam and Eve of Bruno's pantheistic universe, all created things are the unruly offspring of the demiurge of intellect and the matrix of necessity.
2009 R. M. Thorson Beyond Walden ii. 18 The Labrador and Keewatin domes were the ‘Adam and Eve’ for every kettle in the glaciated fringe.
5. U.S. slang. In the language of short-order cooks: an order of eggs (in quot. 1891, ham and eggs). Chiefly in Adam and Eve on a raft: poached or fried eggs served on toast. Also Adam and Eve on a raft and wreck them and variants: scrambled eggs on toast. Cf. raft n.1 6.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > egg dishes > [noun] > scrambled eggs
buttered eggsa1425
scrambled egg(s)1864
mumbled eggs1879
rumble-tumble1879
Adam and Eve on a raft and wreck them1891
the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > egg dishes > [noun] > other egg dishes
poachéa1425
meseladea1450
potrona1450
malasadec1450
poached eggc1450
eggs in moonshine?1558
snow1597
fondue1806
Scotch egg1808
soufflé1813
scrabbed eggsa1825
Scotch woodcock1836
egg salad1873
prairie oyster1879
Adam and Eve on a raft1891
Russian egg1891
eggs Benedict1898
huevos rancheros1901
sabayon1906
oeuf en cocotte1909
shakshuka1930
piperade1931
thousand-year egg1961
1891 Sunday World Herald (Omaha, Nebraska) 22 Mar. 6 Ham and eggs is one of the most common orders, and in calling this to the kitchen the ‘hasher’ screams ‘Adam and Eve’.
1894 North-eastern Daily Gaz. (Middlesbrough) 15 Oct. One day he ordered poached eggs on toast. Going to the slide the waiter yelled out: ‘Adam and Eve on a raft.’ The order was changed to scrambled eggs, when the waiter rushed off, and in stentorian tones there came the alarming direction to those below: ‘Shipwreck that order!’
1899 Atlanta Constit. 17 July 5/3 An order for eggs on toast went to the kitchen as, ‘Adam and Eve on a raft,’ but if after giving this order the customer wanted the eggs plain, the countermand went out as, ‘Save Adam and Eve; sink the raft.’
1913 Collier's 6 Dec. 28/4 Stools where a person could go in..and order..Adam and Eve on a raft and wreck them.
1931 ‘D. Stiff’ Milk & Honey Route 8 Adam and Eve on a raft, two fried eggs on toast. ‘Wreck 'em’ if they are scrambled. ‘With their eyes open’, if not.
1993 Independent 20 Feb. 36/5 Egg and chips is a given, whereas in New York the same order means yet another more decision-making: sunny-side up, over-easy, Adam-and-Eve-on-a-raft.
2005 Washington Times (Nexis) 11 Aug. m14 Beware of diner staff who shout out orders of ‘Adam and Eve on a raft’ or some other incomprehensible phrase. Nobody speaks that way any more, and the use was suspect even when diners were first appearing.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

Adam and Evev.

Brit. /ˌadəm (ə)n(d) ˈiːv/, U.S. /ˌædəm ən ˈiv/
Origin: From proper names, combined with an English element. Etymons: proper nameAdam , and conj.1, proper name Eve.
Etymology: < the name of Adam, the first man in the biblical account (see Adam n.1) + and conj.1 + the name of Eve, the first woman in the biblical account (see Eve n.1), rhyming slang for believe v.
transitive. To credit or accept (something) as the truth; to believe. Chiefly in would you Adam and Eve it?
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > accept as true, believe [verb (transitive)]
ylevec888
leve971
ween971
i-weneOE
takec1175
trowc1175
truth?c1250
thinka1275
believec1300
trustc1325
hold1340
trist1340
to give (one's) faith to (also unto)c1405
accept?c1430
admitc1449
credencea1529
to take a person at his (also her) word1535
credit1547
faith1576
to take a person's word1576
receive1581
creed1596
understand1751
Adam and Eve1925
buy1926
1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 3 Could you Adam and Eve it.
1956 A. Thorne Baby & Battleship ii. 89 A baby! Would you Adam-and-Eve it!
1986 J. Sullivan Only Fools & Horses (1999) I. 5th Ser. Episode 3. 302 Cor dear, would you Adam and Eve it, eh?
2008 Independent 10 Mar. (Extra section) 7 Deacon is not only pleasingly obscure but also—would you Adam and Eve it?—works down the road from Albert Square.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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