单词 | bottle heath |
释义 | > as lemmasbottle heath bottle heath n. now rare any of several heathers of the genus Erica, whose flowers are thought to resemble bottles. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > heather or heath and similar plants > [noun] heather1335 ling?c1357 heath1626 grig1691 bottle heath?1711 sea-heath1713 heather-bell1725 red heath?1788 Calluna1803 Scotch heath1822 Erica1826 winter heath1842 heathwort1847 heath-blooms1858 St. Dabeoc's heath1863 cat-heather1864 honey bottle1868 French heath1871 ?1711 J. Petiver Gazophylacii IX. Table 90 Cape Bottle-heath with blush Flowers. 1862 C. Kingsley Water-babies i, in Macmillan's Mag. Aug. 275/2 Red fly-catchers, and pink bottle-heath, and sweet white orchis. 1872 Pharmaceut. Jrnl. & Trans. 21 Dec. 485/2 The heaths are three, and only three—the heather, the cross-leaved heath, and the bottle heath. 1980 S. Eliovson Wild Flowers of Southern Afr. 225/3 E. ampullacea. Bottle-heath... A rare heath that would be well-worth cultivating, this has inch-long, bottle-shaped, flowers. < as lemmas |
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