单词 | stock-gillyflower |
释义 | stock-gillyflowern. The plant Matthiola incana; so called as having a woody stem, in distinction from clove-gillyflower. (See also stock n.1 43.) ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > stock-gillyflower and allies > [noun] stock-gillyflower1530 castle-gilliflower1578 Guernsey violet1578 stock1664 Brompton1724 ten-week stock1785 night-scented stock1849 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 276/2 Stocke gyllofer, armorie bastarde. 1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. G.viij Purple & blew stock-gelefloures [printed stock-geleflowers]. 1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. iii. 19 Stock-gillyflowers. 1682 N. Grew Disc. Colours of Plants v. i. §15 in Anat. Plants 271 The Purple Flower of Stock-July Flowers. 1894 R. D. Blackmore Perlycross III. xii. 222 With..stock-gilly flowers in their hands. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1530 |
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