| 单词 | purple marsh cinquefoil |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspurple marsh cinquefoil marsh cinquefoil n. (formerly more fully purple marsh cinquefoil) a cinquefoil, Potentilla palustris (formerly Comarum palustre), having dull purple flowers and an enlarged spongy receptacle, which is found in marshes and bogs in north temperate regions. ΚΠ 1648 J. Bobart Eng. Catal. at Cinquefoile, in Catalogus Plantarum Horti Medici Oxoniensis Marsh Cinquefoil, pentaphyllon rubrum palust. 1778 G. White Let. 3 July in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 235 Comarum palustre, purple comarum, or marsh cinque foil,—in the bogs of Bin's-pond. 1863 A. Pratt Haunts of Wild Flowers xiv. 193 In many parts of this kingdom the marsh cinquefoil (Comarum palustre) grows in abundance, especially on peat-bogs. 1985 C. A. Sinker et al. Ecol. Flora Shropshire Region ii. v. 83 Llyn Rhuddwyn has shallow open water..but is being rapidly invaded by soft rush, marsh cinquefoil and sallows. < as lemmas |
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