单词 | wall pennywort |
释义 | > as lemmaswall pennywort a. More fully wall pennywort. Navelwort, Umbilicus rupestris (family Crassulaceae), having round peltate leaves and tending to grow in the crevices of rocks and walls. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Crassulaceae (stonecrop and allies) > [noun] > navelwort pennywortc1300 wall penny-grassa1400 navelwortc1450 wall penny grass1562 Venus' navel1592 hipwort1597 sea-navel1597 sea-navelwort1597 sea-pennywort1597 Venus' garden1597 cotyledon1601 kidneywort1640 Venus's navelwort1678 penny pie1707 acetabulum1727 penny leaf1782 pancakes1882 c1300 in T. Hunt Pop. Med. 13th-cent. Eng. (1990) 228 (MED) Contra tussim: Recipe de peniwrt m. i et m. 2 de watercars. a1350 Recipe Painting in Archæol. Jrnl. (1844) 1 65 For gaude-grene, Tac peniwort other gladene, whether thu wolte of the two erbes, ant tempre thi verdigres. a1400 Alphita (Selden) (1887) 41 Cimbalaria..umbilicus ueneris, idem. angl. penigres uel penywyt [v.r. penywert]. c1475 ( Surg. Treat. in MS Wellcome 564 f. 118v (MED) If þou hast not watir of rose, take þe iuys of morel, or of endiue..penywort, purcelane..or ellis sum oþir colde herbe þat is of þe same kynde. 1597 W. Langham Garden of Health 474 Wall Peniwort, is good against all inflammations and hote tumors, S. Antonies fire, and kibed heeles being applied. 1614 G. Markham Cheape & Good Husbandry i. xxx. 79 The grasse which is vnwholesome for Sheepe, is that which hath growing amongst it, Spearewort, Pennywort, or Penny-grasse. 1757 Philos. Trans. 1756 (Royal Soc.) 49 832 Wall Penny-wort, Kidney-wort; Leicestriensibus Navel-wort. 1858 G. H. Lewes Sea-side Stud. 189 From the crevices peep the stone-crop, the leaves of the foxglove, pennywort, and..other wall loving plants. 1899 Living Age 5 Aug. 381/1 There are many others, of which the snapdragon, the yellow sedum, the wall pennywort, and the pretty little..whitlow-grass, will occur to all. 1965 M. Spark Mandelbaum Gate (1967) iii. 77 It's called penny-wort, commonly. The botanical name is Cotyledon umbilicus. 1996 R. Mabey Flora Britannica 177/2 As a child I used to make tiny Victorian posies in the leaves of pennywort. 1997 C. N. Page Ferns of Brit. & Ireland (ed. 2) 66/2 A[splenium] billotii grows with other common lanebank species including Ivy (Hedera helix), Wall Pennywort (Umbilicus rupestris) [etc.]. wall pennywort ΚΠ 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. xxv. 37 Cotyledon vera. Wall Pennywurte. 1597 W. Langham Garden of Health 474 Wall Peniwort, is good against all inflammations and hote tumors, S. Antonies fire, and kibed heeles being applied. 1757 Philos. Trans. 1756 (Royal Soc.) 49 832 Wall Penny-wort, Kidney-wort; Leicestriensibus Navel-wort. 1855 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. II. 320 Cotyledon Umbilicus (Wall Pennywort). < as lemmas |
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