单词 | spring beauty |
释义 | > as lemmasspring beauty spring beauty n. any of various small bulbiferous plants with white to pink flowers opening in the spring (genus Claytonia, esp. C. virginica, family Montiaceae), found mainly in North America; (also) North American regional any of several other small spring-flowering plants, as trilliums. ΚΠ 1818 A. Eaton Man. Bot. (ed. 2) i. 42 Claytonia..(spring beauty). 1915 M. Armstrong Field Bk. Western Wild Flowers 122 This charming little flower resembles the Spring Beauty of the East, Claytonia Virginica, and blooms in late spring, among the ferns and wet grasses near the Yosemite waterfalls. 2009 Charleston (W. Va.) Gaz. (Nexis) 4 Apr. 6 c Spring beauties began to open their pink striped petals and look about. < as lemmas |
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