| 单词 | son before the father |
| 释义 | > as lemmasson before the father ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > names applied to various plants > [noun] heatha700 beeworteOE leversc725 springworteOE clotec1000 halswortc1000 sengreenc1000 bottle?a1200 bird's-tonguea1300 bloodworta1300 faverolea1300 vetchc1300 pimpernel1378 oniona1398 bird's nest?a1425 adder's grassc1450 cockheada1500 ambrosia1525 fleawort1548 son before the father1552 crow-toe1562 basil1578 bird's-foot1578 bloodroot1578 throatwort1578 phalangium1608 yew1653 chalcedon1664 dittany1676 bleeding heart1691 felon-wort1706 hedgehog1712 land caltrops1727 old man's beard1731 loosestrife1760 Solomon's seal1760 fireweed1764 desert rose1792 star of Bethlehem1793 hen and chickens1794 Aaron's beard1820 felon-grass1824 arrowroot1835 snake-root1856 firebush1858 tick-seed1860 bird's eye1863 burning bush1866 rat-tail1871 lamb's earsa1876 lamb's tongue plant1882 tar-weed1884 Tom Thumb1886 parrotbeak1890 stinkweed1932 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Sonne before the father, a herbe so called by Pandecta, because it flowreth twyse, and the last flowres bene lenger then the fyrste, the leaues be lyke rosemary: but broder. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. li. 73 (caption) Lysimachium purpureum primum. The first purple red, willow herbe, or Lysimachium, also the Sonne before the Father. 1615 tr. C. van de Passe Garden of Flowers iii. sig. F/1 Doggsbane, or purple medow Saffron, or the sonne before the father. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 65/1 The Son before the Father, so called of some Herbalists, because the flowers come up before the leaves... Some term these Meadow Saffron flowers. 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Son-afore-the-father, Common Coltsfoot. 1888 Amer. Naturalist 22 801 The name given to a certain garden weed, coltsfoot, whose flower appears before the leaves, hence called ‘the son before the father’. < as lemmas |
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