| 单词 | wandering jew |
| 释义 | > as lemmasWandering Jew e. Of plants: Trailing; sending out long tendrils, runners, or adventitious roots. Also in Wandering Jew (after 1c), Wandering Sailor(s, Wandering Jenny, Wandering Willie, popular names of certain plants: see quots. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > [adjective] > climbing, spreading, or creeping running1548 spreading1560 flat1578 ramping1578 wandering1590 upcreeping1611 gadding1638 rambling1653 obsequious1657 reptant1657 scansive1657 scansory1657 procumbent1668 repent1669 scandenta1682 supine1686 scrambling1688 creeping1697 sarmentous1721 reptile1727 sarmentose1760 prostrate1773 trailing1785 decumbent1789 travelling1822 vagrant1827 sarmentaceous1830 humifuse1854 sarmentiferous1858 amphibryous1866 humistratous1880 climbing1882 clambering1883 the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Primulaceae family or plants > [noun] herb twopence1548 twopenny grass1548 water pimpernel1575 moneywort1578 pimpernel1633 piss-weed1714 samolus1753 bastard pimpernel1762 chaff-weed1796 pimpernel chaffweed1796 primwort1846 brook weed1861 money plant1873 Wandering Jenny1878 creeping Jenny1882 Wandering Sailor(s1882 the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > climbing or creeping plants > [noun] > mother of thousands mother of millions1832 Oxford weed1834 mother of thousands1856 Oxford plant1856 wall weed1866 Wandering Sailor(s1881 Wandering Jew1886 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. ix. sig. V6 Of hewen stone the porch was fayrely wrought..; Ouer the which was cast a wandring vine. 1878 W. Dickinson Gloss. Words & Phrases Cumberland (ed. 2) Introd. 20 Lysimachia nummularia. Wandering Jenny. 1881 Rep. & Trans. Devonshire Assoc. XIII. 96 Wandering Sailors..Linaria Cymbalaria. 1882 H. Friend Gloss. Devon Plant Names Wandering Sailor... (2) Lysimachia Nummularia. 1882 Garden 28 Jan. 53/1 The creeping Saxifrage, or our old friend the ‘Wandering Jew’. 1886 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names Wandering Jew, Linaria Cymbalaria, Mill. Suss. 1889 Hardwicke's Sci.-gossip 25 47 The creeping plant known locally as ‘Wandering Jew’..is found in the North-West Provinces, particularly, I believe, in Manitoba. 1913 C. Pettman Africanderisms 544 Wandering Jew, or Wandering Willie.—The Eastern Province name of a creeping plant—a sort of periwinkle. < as lemmas |
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