单词 | rock beauty |
释义 | rock beautyn. 1. An alpine plant, Petrocallis pyrenaica (sometimes called Draba pyrenaica), of the family Brassicaceae ( Cruciferae), typically having pale pink or lilac flowers. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > cruciferous flowers > white or purple flowers garden rocket1548 queen's gillyflower1573 cuckoo-flower1578 damask violet1578 dame's-violet1578 rogue's gilliflower1578 wild passerage1578 lady's smock1593 Canterbury bells1597 close-sciences1597 sea stock-gillyflower1597 cardamine1609 melancholic gentleman1629 melancholy gentleman1629 Whitsun gilliflower1656 Hesperis1666 rocket1731 queen's violet1733 queen's July-flower1760 Virginian stock1760 spinka1774 damewort1776 virgin-stock1786 pink1818 sea-stock1849 clown's mustard1861 rock beauty1870 milksile- 1870 W. Robinson Alpine Flowers ii. 272 Petrocallis Pyrenaica—Beauty of the Rocks... A ‘rock beauty!’ as everybody must confess who sees its fresh light-green tufts, not more than an inch high, and cushioned snugly amidst the broken rocks. 1930 H. Correvon Rock Garden & Alpine Plants xii. 249 D[raba] (Petrocallis) pyrenaica. Rock Beauty. 1964 A. N. Griffith Collins Guide to Alpines 205 This very small genus [sc. Petrocallis] provides us with one charming little plant which well deserves its name of Rock Beauty. 2. A yellow and blackish-brown angelfish, Holacanthus tricolor (family Pomacanthidae), found on coral reefs in the Caribbean. Also more fully rock beauty angelfish. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > miscellaneous types > [noun] mudfish1502 sprat1552 frogfish1598 rockfish1605 yellowtaila1622 sleeper1668 picarel1688 hogfish1735 porkfish1735 sucker1753 zebrafish1771 yellowbelly1775 white steenbras1801 stone-toter1817 stargazer1842 warehou1848 baardman1853 goatfish1864 holostome1864 spot snapper1876 suck-fish1876 mademoiselle1882 queenfish1883 cigar-fish1884 emperor fish1884 rock beauty1885 oilfish1896 aholehole1897 berrugate1898 Photoblepharon1902 sweet-lip1934 rabbitfish1941 redbait1960 1885 Proc. U.S. National Mus. 1884 7 155 Holacanthus tricolor... ‘Rock Beauty’. 1959 R. P. L. Straughan Salt-water Aquarium in Home iv. 85 Rock Beauties..need plenty of aeration. 1977 D. J. Coffey Encycl. Aquarium Fish 141/1 Rock Beauty... From the Caribbean, this yellow fish has a black patch that expands with age. 2004 Dive Sept. 37/1 An equally common sight on these dives is rock beauty angelfish spawning. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1870 |
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