单词 | bluet |
释义 | bluetn. 1. Frequently in plural with singular agreement. a. The annual cornflower, Centaurea cyanus. Also: (more fully mountain bluet) the perennial cornflower, C. montana, of southern Europe. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > composite flowers > corn-flower bluebottle?a1450 bluet?a1450 blue poppya1500 hawdod?1523 blue-blaw1538 cornflower1578 blue bonnet1777 blue cap1821 French pink1854 ?a1450 J. Arderne in 17th Internat. Congr. Med. (1914) xxiii. 109 (MED) In fraunce they callene herbes these names..Blewet idem est. 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique Blue-Bottle, or Bluet, a Plant of which the small ones have blue Flowers, made use of by Children to make Crowns or Chaplets of: it grows amongst Wheat and other Corn. 1841 J. W. Loudon Ladies' Compan. to Flower Garden 30/1 Bluets.—See Centaurea. 1884 R. Folkard Plant Lore, Legends & Lyrics 278 The Centaury is known as the Hurt-sickle, because it turns the edges of the reapers' sickles: its other familiar names are Bluebottle, Blue-blow, Bluet, and Corn-flower. 1919 Addisonia 4 57 Centaurea Montana... Mountain Bluet... Native of Europe. 1950 S. L. Emsweller Growing Ann. Flowering Plants (rev. ed.) 10 Cornflower is also known as bachelor's-button, bluebottle, ragged sailor, kaiserblume, and sometimes, erroneously, as ‘ragged-robin’ and ‘bluet’. 2012 K. D. Norris Guide Bearded Irises xi. 318 The reds of lupines and Oriental poppies..or the blues of mountain bluets (Centaurea montana) and bluestars. b. Chiefly Canadian. Any of several blueberry plants (genus Vaccinium); esp. the sparkleberry, V. arboreum. Also: the berry of these plants, a blueberry. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > berry > [noun] > other berries hedge-berry1607 elderberry1625 ramble-berry1658 cloudberry1743 Indian pear1796 bluet1812 squawberry1829 pigface1830 wax-berry1835 quandong1836 strawberry guava1901 bead-berry1923 squash-berry1935 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > edible berries > other berries blueberry1594 hedge-berry1607 elderberry1625 huckleberry1670 bearberry1677 cloudberry1743 baked apple1750 pembina1760 service1785 honeyberry1787 nub-berry1794 bluet1812 noop1817 squawberry1829 quandong1836 miro1838 strawberry guava1901 squash-berry1935 tayberry1977 tummelberry1984 1761 tr. P. de Charlevoix Jrnl. Voy. N.-Amer. I. 249 The Bluet grows here as in Europe in woods. This fruit is a sovereign and speedy cure for the dysentery.] 1812 J. Pinkerton Gen. Coll. Voy. & Trav. XIII. 361 The bluets are certain little berries not unlike small cherries, only they are black, and perfectly round. 1892 Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 5 99 Vaccinium (any species under sub-genus Cyanococcus), bluets. N. B., among French Canadians. 1911 J. M. Nickell Bot. Ready Ref. 139 Vaccinium Frondosum. Blue Whortleberry. Whortleberry. Blueberry. Blue Tangle. Bluets. 2003 Washington Times (Nexis) 13 Sept. d1 August is wild blueberry season in Quebec. Countless roadside stands advertise blueberries for sale, or simply bluets. c. Any of various delicate low-growing plants constituting the North American genus Houstonia (family Rubiaceae); esp. H. caerulea, which has milky-blue flowers. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Rubiaceae or Galiaceae (bedstraw, etc.) > [noun] wild madderc1450 crudwort15.. Our Lady bedstraw1527 Our Lady's bedstraw1543 galion1548 maidenhair1548 purple goose-grass1548 cheese renning1578 crosswort1578 golden mugget1578 petty mugget1578 lady's bedstraw1585 maid's hair1597 cheese rennet1599 runnet1678 field madder1684 mugweed1690 rondeletia1739 Richardia1755 petty madder1760 madderlen1770 galium1785 Sherardia1785 joint-grass1790 mugwort1796 bluet1818 bedstraw1820 madderwort1845 hundredfold1853 honeywort1863 1818 W. P. C. Barton Compendium Floræ Philadelphicæ I. 84 Sky-Blue Houstonia. Bluetts. Innocence. This beautiful little species, is one of our earliest blooming spring flowers, and is universally known. 1863 Rep. Comm. Agric. 1862 (U.S. Dept. Agric.) 159 The ‘Bluets’, ‘Innocence’, ‘Dwarf Pink’, with, perhaps, some other common name, is one of the prettiest ornaments of our spring meadows. 1918 House & Garden Sept. 37/1 The grass is powdered with drifts of bluets. 1996 H. P. Loewer Thoreau's Garden 125 The true or common bluet, Houstonia caerulea, grows in tufts, with leafy stems, each tipped with one flower. 2012 M. A. Homoya Wildflowers & Ferns Indiana Forests 177 The mountain bluets is the largest of these species. 2. A kind of blue woollen cloth. historical. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from wool > [noun] > of specific colour > blue pilot cloth1828 bluet1866 1866 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices I. xxii. 575 Bluett is quoted by the yard, and by the pannus or piece. 1899 W. P. Dodge Piers Gaveston iii. 28 For the Feast of the Assumption, cloth of bluet and of rayed (ie, striped) scarlet was bought for the robes of the Prince and Sir John de Bretagne. 1999 C. M. Woolgar Great Househ. in Late Medieval Eng. viii. 173 Bogo de Clare's esquires were bought three cloths of scarlet ray and three of yellow cloth... Bogo himself had bluet. 3. North American. Any of numerous, typically blue, damselflies constituting the chiefly American genus Enallagma and the chiefly Eurasian genus Coenagrion. ΚΠ 1929 J. G. Needham & H. B. Heywood Handbk. Dragonflies N. Amer. 327 Enallagma laterale... A very rare bluet. 1979 J. A. Powell & C. L. Hogue Calif. Insects 45 Bluets. Enallagma. These are the common bright blue and black damselflies. 2003 T. Manolis Dragonflies & Damselflies of Calif. 63 Only three of the 43 species of Eurasian bluets are found in North America, one of these reaching California. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.?a1450 |
随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。