| 单词 | red rattle grass |
| 释义 | > as lemmasred rattle grass rattle grass n. (a) any of several kinds of rattle (sense 1) found as weeds in meadows and pastures, esp. (more fully red rattle grass) = red rattle n. (now rare); (b) quaking grass, Briza media. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Scrophulariaceae (figwort and allies) > [noun] > lousewort or red rattle lousewort1578 rattle grass1578 red rattle1578 mimmulus1633 pipeweed1702 wood betony1886 Indian warrior1897 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iv. lvi. 515 Rattel grasse..beareth redde flowers, and leaues finely iagged or snipt. 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 913 Red Rattle..hath very small, rent, or iagged leaues, of a browne redde colour... It is called..in English Rattle grass, red Rattle grasse, and Lousewoort. 1652 N. Culpeper Eng. Physitian Enlarged 186 Rattle-grass. Of this there are two kindes, which I shall speak of, viz. the red and the yellow... The common red Rattle, hath sundry reddish, hollow stalks, and sometimes green rising from the Roots... The common yellow Rattle hath seldom above one round green stalk [etc.]. 1735 W. Ellis Pract. Farming & Husb. 233 The Penny, or Rattle Grass has a Leaf like Wood-bine full of Notches, blows with a yellow Flower, and when that goes off, and its brown Head rattles if shaken, then it's time to mow it. 1855 W. Howitt Land, Labour & Gold I. ix. 165 There is a shrub..something like a chrysanthemum; but is covered with masses of hop-like seed-cases, like those of the rattle-grass (Rhinanthus crista-galli). 1856 W. J. Hooker & T. B. Salter Bromfield's Flora Vectensis 602 B. media..Common Quaking-grass. Quakers... Rattle-grass. Maiden's-hair. Totter-grass. 1911 Times 21 June 7/6 The weed known as yellow rattle, rattles, rattle-grass, cock's-comb and horsepenny is very abundant in some districts this season. 2000 Washington Times (Nexis) 5 Aug. a1 Steer clear of musk thistle, tropical soda apple and puncture vine, not to mention skeletonweed and rattle grass. red rattle grass Any of various semi-parasitic plants of the genus Pedicularis (family Scrophulariaceae); esp. either of two European species, (more fully marsh red rattle, tall red rattle) P. palustris, a crimson-flowered plant of marshes and wet meadows, and (more fully dwarf red rattle, †red rattle grass) P. sylvatica, a dwarf, pink-flowered plant of damp heaths and pastures.Plants of this genus are also called lousewort. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Scrophulariaceae (figwort and allies) > [noun] > lousewort or red rattle lousewort1578 rattle grass1578 red rattle1578 mimmulus1633 pipeweed1702 wood betony1886 Indian warrior1897 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iv. lvi. 517 Redde Rattel [Fr. La Creste rouge, Du. Die roode Ratelen] is taken of the Physitions in these dayes. 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 913 Red Rattle..hath very small, rent, or iagged leaues, of a browne redde colour... It is called..in English Rattle grass, red Rattle grasse, and Lousewoort. 1656 N. Culpeper Eng. Physitian Enlarged 312 The common Red Rattle, hath sundry reddish hollow stalks..rising from the Root. 1713 J. Petiver Catal. Ray's Eng. Herbal Tall Red Rattle. 1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters ii. 131 All over it [grow] rushes, red rattle, marsh-marygold, &c. 1846 J. W. Loudon Brit. Wild Flowers 251 The Pasture Louse-Wort, or Dwarf Red Rattle. 1883 Good Words 24 574/1 The golden bog-asphodel,..the rosy red-rattle. 1918 W. Graveson Brit. Wild Flowers xvi. 138 Where the ground is boggy, Marsh Valerian and Marsh Red Rattle are plentiful. 1939 I. E. Melhus & G. C. Kent Elements Plant Pathol. xiv. 427 In..the red rattles and yellow rattles of Europe and the Americas, the parasites are dependent on the attachment to the roots of their hosts. 2006 Scunthorpe Evening Tel. (Nexis) 28 June 14 Many of North Lincolnshire's unusual bog plants, including Butterwort, three types of Sundew and Red Rattle, have nearly disappeared. < as lemmas |
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