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单词 boys mercury
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boy's mercuryn.

Brit. /ˈbɔɪz ˌməːkjᵿri/, U.S. /ˈbɔɪz ˌmərkjəri/
Forms: 1500s boyes mercury, 1600s boies mercurie, 1800s– boy's mercury.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: boy n.1, mercury n.
Etymology: < genitive of boy n.1 + mercury n. (compare mercury n. 10), so called on account of the plant's supposed property of inducing the generation of male children. Compare Hellenistic Greek ἀρρενογόνον ( > classical Latin arrhenogonon (Pliny)), use as noun (short for ϕύλλον ἀρρενογόνον ) of neuter of ἀρρενογόνος promoting the conception of males (compare quot. 1578). Compare girl's mercury n.
Now historical and rare.
The female of either of two plants of the genus Mercurialis, M. tomentosa and M. annua, formerly supposed to have been the male plant and to have the property of inducing the generation of male children.
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French mercury1597
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. lii. 78 Phyllon... The male is called ἀρρενογόνον, whiche may be Englished Barons Mercury or Phyllon, or Boyes Mercury or Phyllon. And the female is called in Greeke θηλυγόνον: and this kinde may be called in English Gyrles Phyllon or Mercury, Daughters Phyllon, or Mayden Mercury.
1601 R. Chester Loves Martyr 82 Sweete Sugar Canes, Sinkefoile, and boies Mercurie.
1886 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names 61 Boy's mercury, the female plant of Mercurialis annua L., which was supposed by Lyte and other old writers to be the male plant.
1911 Amer. Naturalist 45 494 Thus boy's mercury was the name applied to the female plant of M. annua, girl's mercury the name given to the plant with staminate flowers.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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