单词 | water garden |
释义 | water gardenn. A garden in which water features prominently, or forms the principal medium in which plants are grown. Also (occasionally): a water-filled container in which aquatic plants are cultivated. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > garden > [noun] > other types of garden grounda1500 knot-garden1519 back-garden1535 summer garden1589 spring garden1612 spring gardena1625 water gardena1626 walled gardena1631 wildernessa1644 window garden1649 botanic garden1662 Hanging Gardens1705 winter garden1736 cottage garden1765 Vauxhall1770 English garden1771 wall garden1780 chinampa1787 moat garden1826 gardenesque1832 sunk garden1835 roof garden1844 weedery1847 wild garden1852 rootery1855 beer-garden1863 Japanese garden1863 bog-garden1883 Italian garden1883 community garden1884 sink garden1894 trough garden1935 sand garden1936 Zen garden1937 hydroponicum1938 tub garden1974 rain garden1994 the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > garden > [noun] > collections of specific plants water gardena1626 hortus siccus1687 heathery1804 muscarium1853 filicetum1856 tulip-field1969 a1626 A. Lake Medit. in Sermons (1629) sig. dv He will make me as a water garden, and plant me with most generous plants, by his power. 1734 Flower-garden Display'd (ed. 2) 139 But should Lime, or Stable fresh Dung..be infus'd in the Water, tho' they are very good Manure in the Field, yet they wou'd prove wholly destructive to our Water Garden. 1750 C. Smith Antient & Present State Cork I. ii. iii. 248 There are fine gardens on three sides of the house... That on the north is a most delightful spot, called the water garden, with cascades, jets d'eau, &c. 1799 Whitehall Evening Post 1–4 June The company..adjourned to the Figure Court, adjoining the Water-gardens. 1858 Art-Jrnl. 2nd Ser. 4 116/2 An unprotected foot-bridge that crossed a small arm of the Thames, half pool, half rivulet, sometimes more than half empty—at times like a water-garden, at others a little mimic sea. 1891 Hardwicke's Sci.-gossip 27 19 Fresh-Water Aquaria, [Reviewed]..A well-written description of these domestic water-gardens and vivaria. 1902 C. J. Cornish Naturalist on Thames 176 A recent addition to the country house is the ‘water garden’, in which a running brook is the centre and motif of the subsidiary ornaments of flowers, ferns, trees, shrubs, and mosses. 1915 Edinb. Rev. July 111 The Dutch gardens, like those of Spain, were themselves water-gardens. a1993 J. Lash Blood Ties (1997) v. 174 His wealth..enabled him to design a most engaging and rather frivolous water-garden, where cavorting stone nymphs hid among fountains. 2011 M. Symington Sacred Brit. 60 The 12th-century Chalice Well, set in a lush water garden at the foot of the Tor [at Glastonbury]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.a1626 |
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