单词 | sea-willow |
释义 | sea-willown. a. The sea-buckthorn. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > thorn-tree or -bush > [noun] > other thorn-trees paliurec1384 paliurusa1398 sea-willow1548 Christ's thorn1553 buckler-thorn1562 garland-thorn1597 goat's thorn1597 Jews thorn1597 milk-vetch1597 sea-buckthorn1731 Spanish hedgehog thorn1760 sensitive briar1802 lily thorn1816 sallow thorn1847 cat-brier1875 1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. D.iiijv Halimus..maye be called in englishe sea wyllowe or prickwylowe because it hath the leaues of a wylowe and prickes lyke a thorne. b. The papyrus or paper-reed, biblus n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > reedy or aquatic grasses > [noun] > sedges > papyrus plants papyrusa1398 paper plant1597 paper reed1597 paper-rush1608 sea-willow1807 paper- 1807 J. Robinson Archæol. Græca iv. xv. 416 The ancient Greeks..preferred cables of rushes or sea-willow. [ Odyss. xxi. 391 ὄπλον νεὸς ἀμϕιελίσσης βύβλινον.] 2. A gorgoniaceous polyp. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Anthozoa Actinozoa > order Alcyonaria > suborder Gorgonacea > member of sea-fan1633 sea-willow1755 sea-whip1775 Venus's fan1855 1755 J. Ellis Ess. Nat. Hist. Corallines 68 Sea-willow. a1776 J. Ellis Nat. Hist. Zoophytes (1786) 89 Gorgonia anceps. Sea-Willow Gorgon. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1548 |
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