单词 | blue moonwort |
释义 | > as lemmasblue moonwort blue moonwort n. the European alpine plant Soldanella alpina (family Primulaceae), which has glossy roundish leaves and fringed blue flowers. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > primrose and allied flowers > allied flowers bear's ear sanicle1597 French cowslip1597 mountain bindweed1597 blue moonwort1629 soldanella1629 chickweed wintergreen1640 primrose1688 Meadia1744 American cowslip1866 wood pimpernel1866 soldanelle1886 1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole 234 Soldanella Alpina. Mountaine Soldanella or blew Moonewort. 1728 R. Bradley Dict. Botanicum Blue Moon-wort, in Latin, Soldanella Alpina. 1893 Jrnl. Hort., Cottage Gardener & Home Farmer 23 Mar. 281/1 This Soldanella has received the name of the ‘Blue Moonwort’—a name which shows the inconvenience of some of our ‘popular’ names. 1972 J. Metcalf Going down Slow v. 102 What a garden... There was Herb of Grace and Rosemary,..Blue Moonwort and the Melancholy Gentleman. 2011 R. Lynette Mountain Food Chains 14 Some flowers, such as the blue moonwort that grows in the Swiss Alps, can even grow through melting snow. blue moonwort blue moonwort n. : see blue adj. and n. Compounds 1b(b).extracted from moonwortn.< as lemmas |
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