| 单词 | blue-eyed mary |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblue-eyed Mary blue-eyed Mary n. (a) any of several North American plants of the genus Collinsia (family Plantaginaceae) having bicoloured (blue or purple and white) flowers; esp. C. verna, an annual of eastern areas; (b) the southern European navelwort, Omphalodes verna, a low-growing creeping plant with bright blue flowers. ΚΠ 1887 Jrnl. Cincinnati Soc. Nat. Hist. July 53 Collinsia... verna... Blue eyed Mary. 1898 Gardeners' Chron. 2 July 4/2 Blue-eyed Mary, Omphalodes verna, in its blue and white varieties, and big patches of Dog-tooth Violets. 1913 H. S. Adams Flower Gardening 15 Is it too small a thing to bestow the name Mary's garden on a generous planting of ‘blue-eyed Mary’..? 1947 New Castle (Pa.) News 8 May 7 Some clumps of the fragile collinsia, the blue-eyed Mary. 2000 K. Levine Plant This! 21/2 Omphalodes verna (blue-eyed Mary): Politely colonizes by underground stems. < as lemmas |
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