| 单词 | ruscus | 
| 释义 | ruscusn.  Any of various plants constituting the chiefly Eurasian genus  Ruscus (family  Ruscaceae (formerly included in the  Liliaceae)), of evergreen shrubs with flat, stiff, pointed shoots (cladophylls) that resemble leaves; esp. butcher's broom,  R. aculeatus, which has pale green flowers and is commonly grown in gardens. In later use also (in form  Ruscus): the genus itself.Valid publication of the genus name:  Linnaeus Species plantarum (1753)  II. 1041. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > butcher's broom > 			[noun]		 knee-hollyc1000 butcher's broom1538 petigrew1538 horse-tongue1562 knee-holm1562 knee-hull1562 ruscus1562 double-tongue1578 prickly box1578 tongue-blade1578 ground-myrtle1601 uvularia1706 Alexandrian laurel1760 punnai1794 shepherd's myrtlec1840 Jew's myrtle1856 knee-hul- knee-hulver-   Promptorium Parvulorum 		(Harl. 221)	 162  				Fyrrys, or qwyce tre, or gorstys tre, ruscus. c1450    in  T. Wright  & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. 		(1884)	 I. 608/l. 39  				Ruscus, a grost, or furses.]			 1562    W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 121v  				Ruscus is named..in English Kneholme, or Knehull, and of other Bucher broume. 1578    H. Lyte tr.  R. Dodoens Niewe Herball  vi. xiii. 674  				In Shoppes it is called Ruscus; in English Kneeholme, Kneehul, Butchers Broome and Petigree. 1657    W. Coles Adam in Eden ccxxix. 361  				We call it [sc. butcher's broom] in English Knee-holme, Knee-hulver, Kneeholly, Pettigree, and Ruscus Bruscus. 1753    Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Bonifacia  				The broad-leaved ruscus, or butcher's-broom, commonly called the Alexandrian bay. 1797    Encycl. Brit. XVI. 553/1  				Ruscus,..Butcher's Broom: A genus of the syngenesia order, belonging to the dioecia class. 1822    J. C. Loudon Encycl. Gardening  i. 221  				The flower of the Ruscus is protruded from the surface of the leaf. 1882    ‘Ouida’ In Maremma I. 250  				Where the tombs of the Tyrrhenes were hidden away behind the fence of thorny ruscus. 1922    Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 49 212  				The genus Ruscus is today limited to a few Palaearctic species, with lanceolate to ovate sharply pointed cladodes. 2003    T. L. Rye Wedding Florals 77/2  				Place a sprig of ruscus behind a sprig of seeded eucalyptus. Insert a floral wire through the cluster and bend in half. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < | 
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