单词 | blue sow-thistle |
释义 | > as lemmasblue sow-thistle blue sow-thistle n. any of several composite plants with blue flowers or bluish leaves of (or formerly of) the genera Cicerbita, Sonchus, and Lactuca. ΚΠ 1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) III. 674 Sonchus canadensis. Blue Sowthistle. 1822 S. Clarke Hortus Anglicus II. 337 Sonchus Plumiéri. Plumiers, or Pyrenaean Blue Sow Thistle. 1916 New Internat. Encycl. XXI. 329/1 The Alpine blue sow thistle (Lactuca alpina) is a native of the mountainous parts of Europe. 1991 C. Stace New Flora Brit. Isles 826 Cicerbita Wallr.—Blue-sow-thistles. 2005 D. Ratcliffe Lapland Nat. Hist. v. 94 The Scottish rarity of high rock ledges, Alpine Blue Sow-thistle, is abundant in some woods but somewhat local in Lapland. < as lemmas |
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