单词 | superplant |
释义 | > as lemmassuperplant ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by nutrition or respiration > [noun] > epiphyte superplant1626 supercrescence1646 air plant1799 epiphyte1861 strangler1895 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §556 We finde no Super-Plant, that is a Formed Plant, but Misseltoe. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica ii. vi. 98 An arboreous excrescence, or rather superplant . View more context for this quotation 1740 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. (new ed.) at Hypocistis These plants grow from the Root of the Cistus, or Rock-rose, and cannot be cultivated by Art; it being a Superplant, like the Mistletoe. 1813 Entertaining Mag. Aug. 442/2 An unhealthy tree is never without these imperfect super-plants [sc. mosses]. 1821 Bot. Reg. 7 §603 The genus [Cuscuta] consists wholly of parasites, or, as they were formerly termed, superplants. < as lemmas |
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