单词 | red nettle |
释义 | red nettlen. 1. A form of common nettle, Urtica dioica, or Roman nettle, U. pilulifera, with reddish parts. Also: the red dead-nettle, Lamium purpureum. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Urticaceae (nettle and allies) > [noun] nettleeOE dock-nettlea1300 Greekish nettlec1450 Roman nettle1578 red nettle1611 ettle1688 urtica1706 bur-nettle1714 pill nettle1714 nettle plant1764 richweed1814 clearweed1822 sting-nettle1822 ongaonga1842 nettlewort1846 urtical1846 jinny1876 eOE Bald's Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) ii. viii. 188 Genim þa reade netlan ufewearde hæbbende sæd, aþweah clæne & wyrce to supanne. OE Metrical Charm: For Sudden Stitch (Harl. 585) 1 Feferfuige and seo reade netele, ðe þurh ærn inwyxð, and wegbrade. ?a1350 in T. Hunt Plant Names Medieval Eng. (1989) 257 [Urtica Greca] gallice rouge urtie, anglice rede netle. a1400 MS Sloane 282 in J. L. G. Mowat Alphita (1887) 193 (MED) Urtica greca, rouge urteie, reed netel. ?c1450 in Anglia (1896) 18 302 Þe crop of þe reed nettyle forȝete þou noȝt. a1543 in A. Amherst Hist. Gardening in Eng. (1896) 76 (MED) Herbes for a Salade..Red nettell. 1561 J. Hollybush tr. H. Brunschwig Most Excellent Homish Apothecarye f. 3 Take sedes of red nettels, and braye them to pouder in a morter. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Ortie griesche, the small stinging red Nettle. Ortie rouge, the red Nettle. 1650 in W. M. Ogilvie Extracts Rec. Presbytery of Brechin (1876) 51 Shee drank a drink steiped with the roote of the read nettle. 1696 N. Barbon Disc. Coining New Money 6 The Red-Nettle, though it be of excellent Virtue to stop Bleeding, yet here it is a Weed of no Value from its plenty. 1754 T. Smollett tr. Select Ess. Commerce, Agric., Mines, Fisheries 256 The colour of the stalk and leaves is not always green, but varies, and is called red nettle, yellow nettle, and party-coloured nettle. 1845 W. Cobbett Eng. Gardener 408 Flowers of from two inches to two feet high; proper border flowers.—..Narcissus, Nasturtium, Red Nettle, [etc.]. a1864 J. Clare Major Wks. (2004) 331 On banks where the red nettle flowers it comes And there all the long sunny morning hums. ?1877 F. E. Hulme Familiar Wild Flowers I. Summary p. lxiii The upper leaves of the red nettle are sometimes densely clothed with silky hairs. 1922 E. Singleton Shakespeare Garden i. ii. 14 Here it is: violets,..caraway, red nettle, daisy, [etc.]. 1950 A. Uttley Buckinghamshire xxvi. 364 They had gathered red nettle, and they had tried to find ground-ivy. 1973 C. A. Wilson Food & Drink in Brit. vi. 205 An early fifteenth-century classified list (MS. Sloane 1201) gives no fewer than forty-eight herbs for pottage, including..red nettle, lettuce, [etc.]. 2. Formerly: †a kind of sea anemone (not identified) (obsolete). Later: (English regional) a kind of jellyfish. Cf. sea-nettle n. rare.The French regional name cul de cheval (see quot. 1611) has been associated with various anemones, including Metridium senile, Anemonia sulcata, and the beadlet anemone, Actinia equina. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Acalepha > member of (jelly-fish) nettle1601 sea-nettle1601 blubber1602 nettlefish1611 red nettle1611 squalder1659 sea-jellya1682 urticaa1682 carvel1688 sea-qualm1694 sea-bleb1700 acaleph1706 sea-blubber1717 Medusa1752 quarla1820 acalephan1834 medusite1838 jellyfish1841 naked-eyed medusa1848 slobber1849 sea-cross1850 sea-danger1850 sun squall1853 discophore1856 medusoid1856 starch1860 Discophoran1876 jelly1882 sea-blub1885 the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Anthozoa Actinozoa > order Zoantharia > suborder Actiniaria > member of sea-nettle1601 red nettle1611 sea-spout1731 anemone1742 sea-anemone1742 sea-mushroom1742 sea-pudding1750 actinia1752 sea-carnation1768 sea star-flower1768 sea-sunflower1768 sea-daisya1776 sea-marigolda1776 sea-torchthistlea1776 insect-flower1791 sea-flower1850 aurora1858 actiniarian1874 actinian1876 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Cul de cheval, a small, and ouglie fish, or excrescence of the Sea, resembling a mans bung-hole, and called, the red Nettle. 1997 W. Rollinson Dict. Cumbrian Dial. 132/2 Red nettle, stinging red jellyfish (Cartmel). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.eOE |
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