单词 | reate |
释义 | reaten. Now English regional (midlands) Any of several kinds of water crowfoot, esp. Ranunculus fluitans. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Ranunculaceae (crowfoot and allies) > [noun] > crowfoot clovetonguec1325 pilewort?a1425 crowfootc1440 ranunculus1543 rape crowfoot1578 urchin crowfoot1578 water milfoil1578 lodewort1597 reate1655 hunger-weed1792 devil's claw1996 1655 I. Walton Compl. Angler (ed. 2) xx. 337 To kill the water-weeds, as Water-Lillies, Candocks, Reate and Bul-rushes. 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Reate, a kind of long small grass that grows in water, and complicates itself together. 1840 R. Browning Sordello vi. 81 Pure, loquacious pearl the soft tree-tent Guards, with its face of reate and sedge. 1869 Notes & Queries 15 May 455/2 Rait, Reate, Reit. In Shrewsbury this term is applied by fisherman to the Ranunculus fluitans.., which plant forms a transient but very elegant and conspicuous ornament of the river Severn. 1899 Birmingham Daily Gaz. 30 June Men are cutting the ret from the Trent. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1655 |
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