| 单词 | scottish asphodel |
| 释义 | > as lemmasScottish asphodel Scottish asphodel n. a small European subalpine plant, Tofieldia pusilla (family Tofieldiaceae), with greenish-white flowers. ΚΠ 1677 J. Ray Catal. Plantarum Angliæ (ed. 2) 30 Asphodelus palustris Scoticus minimus. The least Scottish Asphodil. Found about two miles North of Barwick near a small rivulet. 1767 J. Robertson Jrnl. 20 June in D. M. Henderson & J. H. Dickson Naturalist in Highlands (1994) ii. 44 At the head of a valley a little north from Dybdol I found abundance of Anthericum calyculatum/Scottish Asphodel growing by the side of the rills. 1863 M. Plues Rambles in Search of Wild Flowers 292 The Scottish Asphodel (Tofieldia palustris), is the one representative of its family; it grows four or five inches high. 1922 H. S. Salt Call of Wildflower xxi. 153 Here, in the wet gullies, may be found such choice northern plants as the..Scottish asphodel (Tofieldia), a small relative of the common bog-asphodel. 2003 I. G. Simmons Moorlands Eng. & Wales vi. 284 Arctic-alpine plants such as bird's-eye primrose (Primula farinosa) and Scottish asphodel (Tofieldia pusilla) are found in a base-rich flush fed by springs. < as lemmas |
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