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单词 ribwort
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ribwortn.

Brit. /ˈrɪbwəːt/, U.S. /ˈrɪbwərt/, /ˈrɪbˌwɔrt/
Forms: Middle English ribbewrt, Middle English ribuurt, Middle English ribwrt, Middle English rubwort, Middle English rybbewort, Middle English rybeworthe, Middle English–1500s rybwort, Middle English–1500s robworte, Middle English–1500s rybbeworte, Middle English– ribwort, Middle English–1500s ribbewort, 1500s ribwoort, 1500s ribwoorte, 1500s ribwurte, 1500s rybbwort, 1500s–1600s ribworte, Middle English–1600s rybworte; N.E.D. (1909) also records a form of the second element 1600s -wurt.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: rib n.1, rib n.2, wort n.1
Etymology: < either rib n.1 or rib n.2 + wort n.1; compare discussion at rib n.2 Compare Middle Low German ribbewort , ripwort . Compare ribgrass n.
1. More fully ribwort plantain: a Eurasian plantain commonly found in grassland, Plantago lanceolata, which has lanceolate leaves with prominent ribs; also called narrow-leaved plantain. In later use also: the greater plantain, P. major; (more generally) any member of the genus Plantago (rare).
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Plantaginaceae > [noun] > narrow-leaved plantain
ribwortc1300
lancella1400
ribgrass?a1500
long plantain1526
ribbed grass1770
cock's head1787
jackstraws1795
fighting cocks1807
ripple grass1819
c1300 in T. Hunt Pop. Med. 13th-cent. Eng. (1990) v. 227 (MED) Pro illa infirmitate..Recipe de madir manipulos duos, ribbewrt..wodesur..et postea coquantur in vino rubeo.
a1325 in T. Hunt Pop. Med. 13th-cent. Eng. (1990) 241 (MED) Pur fere poysoun: Pernez bugyl..ribwort, wodbynd, i. wethwynd, dayce.
a1400 Alphita (Selden) (1887) 93 (MED) Lanceolata, quinqueneruium, plantago minor idem est; gallice, launcele; anglice, ribuurt uel fanuurt.
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 433/1 Rybbeworte, herbe, lanciola.
c1475 ( Surg. Treat. in MS Wellcome 564 f. 113 (MED) Waische þe wounde..wiþ þe iuys of ribwort.
?a1500 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 786/21 Lancea, a robworte.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 262/2 Rybbe worte, an herbe.
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 341 Ribwoorte or small Plantaine, hath many leaues flat spred vpon the ground.
1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole lxxxv. 352 Rose Plantane..is in all things like vnto the ordinary Plantane or Ribworte.
1671 W. Salmon Synopsis Medicinæ iii. xxii. 424 Ribwort..stops Fluxes and the Termes and is of the nature of Plantain.
1696 J. Floyer Preternatural State Animal Humours x. 129 Plantane boiled in Broths, and Ribwort Plantane.
1763 J. Mills New Syst. Pract. Husbandry III. 345 I do not know that the narrow leaved plantain, or ribwort (Plantago angustifolia) hath ever been cultivated purposely for the food of cattle.
1784 J. Twamley Dairying Exemplified 113 Ribwort, ribbed grass, black plantain or cock plant.
1847 A. Wood Class-bk. Bot. (ed. 2) 388 P. major. Common Plantain or ribwort... This species is a native of Japan, Europe and America, is very common, always at the door and beside the wayside.
1872 D. Oliver Lessons Elem. Bot. (new ed.) ii. 222 Ribwort Plantain..is a common plant of pastures.
1912 Amer. Botanist Feb. 2 Near the water-courses, fortuitously introduced by man, we meet the common ribwort (Plantago major) thriving in just such a habitat.
1937 S. F. Armstrong Brit. Grasses (ed. 3) viii. 166 The Ribwort or Narrow-leaved Plantain (P. lanceolata) is a valuable grazing plant for sheep on sandy soils in the south and east of England.
1960 A. Dale Observ. & Exper. Nat. Hist. vi. 131 There are usually some broad-leaved plantains but fewer ribworts.
1989 Ann. Missouri Bot. Garden 76 627/1 Even the long-exserted anthers of the ribworts that appeared in early summer must have fascinated this unusual young man.
2003 Ecology 84 749/2 Plantago lanceolata (ribwort plantain) is a short-lived perennial that germinates in the fall and spring, and flowers in midsummer.
2007 D. E. Harkness Jewel House i. 52 Cole also shared the precise location in the village of Hogsdon, where he found the rare rose ribwort growing wild.
2. Any plant of the family Plantaginaceae. Frequently attributive, esp. in ribwort family. Now rare.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Plantaginaceae > [noun]
waybreadeOE
ribeOE
psylliumOE
waybread leafOE
plantaina1325
herb Ivec1386
ersworta1400
psyllya1425
flea-seed1562
buck's-horn plantain1578
fleabane1578
hartshorn1578
lamb's tongue1578
rose plantain1597
rose ribwort1597
globularia1728
fire-leaves1796
ribwort1846
hoary plantain1861
goatweed1864
hartshorn plantain-
1846 J. Lindley Veg. Kingdom 642 There is nothing to distinguish the corolla of Ribworts from the part so called in other plants except its..want of vascular texture.
1849 J. H. Balfour Man. Bot. §978 Plantaginaceæ, the Ribwort Family.
1861 R. Bentley Man. Bot. ii. iii. 606 Plantaginaceæ.—The Ribwort Order.
1906 G. H. Clarke & J. Fletcher Farm Weeds of Canada 74 (heading) The Ribwort Family, Plantaginaceae.
1931 A. S. Hitchcock in A. Chase et al. Old & New Plant Lore 128 The ribworts or plantains, widespread as weeds in lawns and waste ground, constitute a single family and order, and have no near relatives living.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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