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单词 spiderwort
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spiderwortn.

Forms: Also spider-wort.
Botany.
1.
a. One or other plant of the liliaceous genus Anthericum (earlier Phalangium). Obsolete.
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1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 45 In English it is called Spiderwoort..for this cause..; The leaues..stand vpon the ground with long legs, and the knees bowing vp like the spiders legs when he creepeth.
1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole xv. 152 The vnbranched Spiderwort most commonly flowereth before all the other.
1671 W. Salmon Synopsis Medicinæ iii. xxii. 418 Spiderwort..is Alexipharmick and cures the biting of all venomous beasts.
1705 A. Behn tr. A. Cowley Plants in Wks. (1711) III. iv. 379 Thou Spider-Wort dost with the Monster strive, And from the conquer'd Foe thy Name derive.
1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Phalangium Branched Spider-wort... Unbranched Spider-wort... African Spider-wort [etc.].
1751 J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. II. 375 The plane-leaved and simple-stalked Anthericum, single-stalked spiderwort.
1763 J. Mills New Syst. Pract. Husbandry III. 312 The spiderwort,..the lesser spearwort, the butterwort, have evidently suspicious marks.
b. mountain or saffron spiderwort (see quots.).
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1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) II. 339 Anthericum serotinum, Mountain Saffron. Saffron Spiderwort.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 1083 Spiderwort,..Mountain, Lloydia serotina.
2. One or other of the plants belonging to the genus Tradescantia; esp. T. virginica, Virginian spiderwort.Parkinson states that he originated this use.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Commelinaceae > [noun] > spiderwort
day-flower1601
spiderwort1629
Tradescantia1757
oyster plant1811
1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole xv. 152 Phalangium Ephemerum virginianum Ioannis Tradescant,..Tradescant his Spider~wort.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 109/2 The Virginia Spider-Wort, or Day Flower,..is..on the back of a sullen yellowish hue.
1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Ephemeron Virginian Spider-wort, with a small blue Flower, commonly call'd John Tradescant's Spider-wort.
1736 Compl. Family-piece ii. iii. 312 You have besides, the scarlet Lichnis, Virginian Spiderwort.
1829 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Plants 260 (table) Tradescantia. Spiderwort..common,..rose-flowered,..thick-leaved [etc.].
1831 J. J. Audubon Ornithol. Biogr. I. 154 The Virginian Spider-wort..is distinguished by its erect, succulent stem.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 1159/2 Tradescantia virginica is the Common Spiderwort of gardens.
1882 Garden 1 Apr. 212/2 This rare and beautiful Spiderwort is now finely in flower.
3. Savoy spiderwort n. the hemerocallis or day-lily; also, †a variety of Tradescantia.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > lily and allied flowers > allied flowers
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agapanthus1789
Spanish squill1790
erythronium1797
Tritoma1804
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veltheimia1808
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Puschkinia1820
hedychium1822
eremurus1836
flame lily1841
lily pink1848
mountain spiderwort1849
lloydia1850
kniphofia1854
garland-flower1866
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swamp-lover1878
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1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole 150 Phalangium Allobrogicum, the Sauoye Spiderwort.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 99/2 Savoy Spider-wort hath thin small sedgy leaves of a whitish green.
1721 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husb. II. 236 Spider Wort. The Italian and the Savoy are the only ones fit for your choice.
1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Ephemeron Virginian Spider-wort, with a large azure Flower, commonly call'd the Savoy Spider-wort.
1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 327 Spider~wort, Great Savoy, Hemerocallis.
1829 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Plants 260 (table) Hemerocallis... Liliastrum... Savoy-Spiderw [ort] .
4. Any plant belonging to the order Commelynaceæ, which includes the genus Tradescantia.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Commelinaceae > [noun]
Commeline1755
spiderwort1846
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > non-British flowers > of south or tropical America
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petunia1825
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1846 J. Lindley Veg. Kingdom 188 The Spiderworts are plants which exhibit a transition from the first remove out of the regions of sedge-like plants to the true Lilies.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 228/1 Cartonema, the generic name of one of the Spiderworts.
attributive.1856 A. Gray Man. Bot. Northern U.S. (ed. 2) 485 Commelynaceæ (Spiderwort Family).1861 R. Bentley Man. Bot. ii. iii. 680 Commelynaceæ, the Spider-Wort Order.
5. U.S. A plant of the genus Cleome, belonging to the caper family.
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1846–50 A. Wood Class-bk. Bot. 172 Cleome pungens, Spiderwort... A common garden plant, with curious purple flowers.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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