| 单词 | purging flax |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspurging flax a. With qualifying word prefixed, in the names of other species of Linum or of plants resembling the true flax, as dwarf-flax, fairy-flax, mountain-flax, purging flax, spurge-flax, toad-flax, wild flax: see quots., and the different words. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Scrophulariaceae (figwort and allies) > [noun] > toadflax or cancer-wort wild flaxa1400 cankerwortc1400 sulfc1450 linary1548 gall-wort1577 herb fluellin1578 toad-flax1578 cancerwort1597 flax-weed1597 linaria1597 butter and eggs1756 fluellin1756 the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > rosaceous plants > [noun] > linum or fairy-flax mill-mountain1633 mountain flax1648 rupturewort1670 purging flax1684 fairy flax1737 mountain flax1841 purge flax1853 fairy lint1859 dwarf-flax1863 linum1867 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > yielding fibre, thatching, or basket material > [noun] > flax plants flaxc1000 linseedc1000 linec1420 lint1458 wild flax1878–86 a1400 J. Mirfield Sinonoma Bartholomei (1882) 28 Linaria, wilde flax. 1670 J. Ray Catalogus Plantarum Angliæ 196 Linum arvense..Common wild Flax. 1863 R. C. A. Prior On Pop. Names Brit. Plants 81 Dwarf-, or Purging-, or Fairy-Flax, Linum catharticum. 1878–86 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names 187 Mountain Flax, (1) Linum catharticum..(2) Erythræa Centaurium. 1878–86 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names 187 Wild Flax, (1) Linaria vulgaris. (2) Cuscuta Epilinum. purging flax purging flax n. a dwarf Eurasian flax, Linum catharticum, with small white flowers, found in dry, esp. calcareous, grassland (also called fairy flax). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > rosaceous plants > [noun] > linum or fairy-flax mill-mountain1633 mountain flax1648 rupturewort1670 purging flax1684 fairy flax1737 mountain flax1841 purge flax1853 fairy lint1859 dwarf-flax1863 linum1867 1684 S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Pharmaceutice Rationalis in Pract. Physick (rev. ed.) 46 Potions that are easily had for the benefit of the poor... Take of Purging Flax one handful, of the seeds of sweet Fennel ȝij. boyl them in Spring water. 1761 W. Lewis Exper. Hist. Materia Medica 352 Purging Flax or Mill Mountain: a small plant, with little oblong smooth leaves..joined in pairs close to the stalks. 1914 F. E. Fritsch & E. J. Salisbury Introd. Study Plants xxv. 321 The numerous chalk-loving plants which form these floral carpets include the Milkwort (Polygala), Purging Flax (Linum)..and several Orchids. 1993 BBC Wildlife June 6/4 Commonest in chalk grassland and other dry pastures on lime-rich soils is fairy or purging flax L. catharticum, with tiny white flowers on thread-like stems. < as lemmas |
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