| 单词 | sweet gale |
| 释义 | > as lemmassweet gale The bog-myrtle, Myrica Gale (the modern Latin specific name is adopted from English); also called sweet gale. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > myrica and allies > [noun] galec1000 Dutch myrtle1597 sweet willow1597 gow1598 sweet-gale1640 candle-tree1692 candleberry tree1731 tallow shrub1770 myrica1791 wax-tree1791 wax-plant1801 wax-myrtle1813 Comptonia1823 tallow-bush1835 wax-berry1835 sweet fern1849 bog myrtle1866 meadow fern1876 flea-wood1892 c1000 Sax. Leechd. III. 6 Nim þre leaf gageles. a1300 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 559/22 Mirtus, i. gaȝel. a1400 J. Mirfield Sinonoma Bartholomei (1882) 22 Gayl, mirta. a1400–50 Alexander 4094 Full of gladen & of gale & of grete redis. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 189/1 Gawl..mirtus. 1483 Cath. Angl. 147/2 Gayle..mirtus. a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1710) I. 33 The fenny part of Axholm berith much Galle, a low frutex swete in burning. 1568 W. Turner Herbal iii. 47 Called..in Cambridge shyre Gall, in Summerset shyre Goul or Golle. 1751 J. Bartram Observ. Trav. from Pensilvania 36 On the banks I found the gale like the European. 1807 G. Crabbe Birth Flattery in Poems 204 Gale from the Bog shall yield Arabian Balm. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Edwin Morris 110 I..heard with beating heart The Sweet-Gale rustle round the shelving keel. 1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. Gale, the fragrant bog-myrtle, often called ‘sweet-gale’. < as lemmas |
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