| 单词 | venus looking-glass |
| 释义 | > as lemmasVenus 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). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > bellflowers bell-flower1578 bluebell1578 Canterbury bells1578 Coventry bells1578 Coventry Marians1578 Coventry rapes1578 fair-in-sight1578 gauntlet1578 haskwort1578 Marian's violet1578 throatwort1578 lady's looking glass1597 mariet1597 Mercury's violet1597 peach-bells1597 steeple bells1597 uvula-wort1597 Venus looking-glass1597 campanula1664 Spanish bell1664 corn-violet1665 rampion1688 Venus' glass1728 harebell1767 heath-bell1805 witch bell1808 slipperwort1813 meadow-bell1827 greygle1844 platycodon1844 lady's thimble1853 kikyo1884 witches' bells1884 balloon flower1901 fairy thimble1914 mountain bell1923 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. < as lemmas |
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