α. 1600s pirola, 1600s– pyrola.
β. 1500s pyrole, 1600s pyrol.
单词 | pyrola |
释义 | pyrolan.α. 1600s pirola, 1600s– pyrola. β. 1500s pyrole, 1600s pyrol. Any of several small evergreen woodland plants of the genus Pyrola (family Ericaceae), of north temperate regions, having rounded leaves and spikes of drooping, bell-shaped white or greenish flowers; also called wintergreen. Also (in form Pyrola): the genus itself.The genus is sometimes placed in its own family, Pyrolaceae, and it formerly contained some plants that are now placed in separate genera, as Chimaphila and Moneses.Valid publication of the genus name: Linnaeus Species Plantarum (1753) I. 396. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Ericaceae (wintergreen and allies) > [noun] wintergreen1525 pyrola1527 limonium1548 rheumatism weed1785 pipsissewa1793 prince's pine1807 king-cure1817 shin-leaf1845 wood-lily1884 1527 L. Andrewe tr. H. Brunschwig Vertuose Boke Distyllacyon ii. cclxxxviii. sig. Uiiv/1 Water of Pirola [Ger. Wyntter grüen wasser das krut von den latinischen pirola genant]. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. xcii. 134 Pyrola groweth in shadowy places, and moyst wooddes. 1651 W. Davenant Gondibert ii. vii. iii New wounds..such..As balm nor juice of pyrol never heals. 1672 J. Josselyn New-Englands Rarities 67 Pirola, or Winter Green, that kind which grows with us in England is common in New-England, but there is another plant which I judge to be a kind of Pirola, and proper to this Country. 1756 J. Hill Brit. Herbal iv. 85 Wintergreen. Pyrola... Linnæus places this among his decandria monogynia, the threads in the centre of the flower being ten, and the style rising from the rudiment of the fruit being single. 1785 H. Marshall Arbustrum Americanum 117 Pyrola umbellata. Umbellated Pyrola... The roots are said to give ease in the tooth ach. 1834 M. Howitt Sketches Nat. Hist. 106 I found within another wood, The rare Pyrola blowing. a1862 H. D. Thoreau Maine Woods (1864) iii. 207 Of smaller plants, there were..Pyrola secunda, apparently the commonest Pyrola in those woods, now out of bloom, Pyrola elliptica, and Chiogenes hispidula. 1903 Yale Lit. Mag. Oct. 18 Tom brought in a fragrant armload of pyrolas. 1969 Sheboygan (Wisconsin) Press 13 Jan. 32/1 At one time, shinleaf pyrola was used as plaster on injured shins. 1977 J. B. Moyle & E. W. Moyle Northland Wild Flowers 114/2 In Minnesota there are several other pyrolas with erect clusters of white or greenish flowers. 2002 Jrnl.Torrey Bot. Club 129 373/2 Non-blooming herbs included..Pyrola rotundifolia (round-leaved pyrola). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1527 |
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