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单词 venus looking-glass
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Venus looking-glass
Venus looking-glass n. (also Venus's looking-glass) one or other of certain plants belonging to the genus Specularia, esp. S. (or Campanula) Speculum (†Speculum Veneris).
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1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 356 Speculum Veneris. Venus Looking glasse..groweth in ploughed fields among the corne.
1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis ii. iii. iii. 234 The Seed of Venus Looking-Glass.
a1689 A. Behn tr. A. Cowley Plants in Wks. (1711) III. iv. 372 But say, Corn-Violet, why thou dost claim Of Venus Looking-Glass the pompous Name.
1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xvi. 195 Venus's Looking-glass is a Campanula, with a weak, low and very branching stalk.
1863 R. C. A. Prior On Pop. Names Brit. Plants Venus' Looking-Glass, from the resemblance of its flowers set upon their cylindrical ovary to an ancient round mirror at the end of a straight handle.
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