| 单词 | rose-eyed |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrose-eyed rose-eyed adj. Horticulture (now historical and rare) (of a flower, esp. a primula) having a ring of stamens visible at the top of the corolla; = thrum-eyed adj. at thrum n.2 Compounds 2; opposed to pin-eyed. ΚΠ 1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) II. 234 Both this and the Garden Polyanthus have roots which bear what the florists call pin-eyed flowers and other roots bearing only rose-eyed flowers. 1884 J. E. Taylor Sagacity of Plants 79 Common people have long distinguished such Primroses under the names of ‘pin-eyed’ and ‘Rose-eyed’. 1928 W. P. Wright Sci. & Pract. Gardening ii. v. 37 The florist calls A a ‘pin-eyed’ flower, and B a ‘thrum-eyed’, or less commonly a ‘Rose-eyed’, flower. 1984 Garden Hist. 12 24 Winning trusses of polyanthus had to have five, sometimes six, pips and these were to be ‘rose-eyed’. < as lemmas |
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