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单词 sea-thistle
释义

sea-thistlen.

Forms: see sea n. and thistle n.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: sea n., thistle n.
Etymology: < sea n. + thistle n.With sense 1 compare sea-holly n. With sense 2 compare sea urchin n. Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsea-thistle.
1. The sea-holly, Eryngium maritimum. In quot. c1265 perhaps the water-caltrops (caltrop n. 3).
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > medicinal and culinary plants > plant used medicinally or as sweetmeat > [noun] > eryngo plant
sea-thistlec1265
sea-holly1548
sea-hulver1548
sea-holm?1550
erynge1578
sea-ivy1588
sea-hull1608
eryngo-root1620
eryngo1668
ring-roota1718
fit-weed1756
c1265 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 557 Tribulus marinus, calketrappe, seaþistel.
1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 45 The Sea-thistle, called Eryngium marinum, which some call Sea hull, or Huluer.
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §568 Eryngium, (Sea-Thistle).
1805 R. Forsyth Beauties Scotl. II. 365 The coast..produces scurvy-grass, colewort, and sea-thistle.
1979 Bull. Yorks. Dial. Soc. Summer 7 The only kind of flowers were the dark blue sea thistle with very strong prickly leaves but no smell.
2. The echinus or sea urchin. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Echinodermata > [noun] > subphylum Eleutherozoa > class Echinoidea > member of (sea-urchin)
echinusc1374
urchin fish1566
ruffe1591
sea-hedgehog1598
urchin1601
sea urchin1605
sea-bear1611
sea-chestnut1613
sea-thistle1661
sea-apple1666
sea-egg1666
button-fish1668
sea-button1668
urchin-worm1668
whore's egg1674
sea-shilling1713
echinite1750
echinid1835
pancake1843
echinoid1864
oursin1914
kina1960
1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 230 They are so full of prickles, that they cannot be held, therefore some call them the Sea Thistles.
3. In full sea-thistle weed: ? gulf-weed. Obsolete.
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the world > plants > particular plants > algae > seaweed > [noun] > gulf-weed
sargasso1598
sea-lentil1633
gulf-weed1674
sea-thistle1703
tropic grape1814
sea-grape1825
sargasso weed1830
Gulf-Stream weed1884
sargassum1905
sargassum weed1928
1703 W. Dampier Voy. New Holland i. 14 We..saw Flying-fish, and a great deal of Sea-thistle Weed floating.
1727 P. Longueville Hermit 65 We saw some flying Fish, and a great deal of Sea Thistle swiming.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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