| 单词 | water lentil |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswater lentil ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > aquatic, marsh, and sea-shore plants > [noun] > duckweeds and allies endemetea1387 duckweedc1440 frog's foot1526 greens1526 duck's meat1538 water lentil1548 grain1578 fen lentil1601 Pistia1754 lemna1789 lentil-dew1800 water lettuce1847 Jenny Greenteeth1852 creed1880 1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. D.viijv Lens palustris..is called in english Duckes meate or water Lentilles, in duch wasser linse. 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 612 Water lintels, which the Romanes take for a token of death and mourning. 1597 W. Langham Garden of Health 355 Kanker to kil, apply water Lentils with Barrows greace. 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 680 Ducks meate..some terme it after the Greek water Lentils. water lentil water lentil n. (also †water lentils) now rare a duckweed (genus Lemna and related genera). [Compare Dutch waterlinze (1514, earliest in plural form), German Wasserlinse (1539), post-classical Latin lenticula aquatica (mid 13th cent., earliest in a British source), lenticula aque (15th cent. or earlier).] ΚΠ 1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. D.viijv Lens palustris..is called in english Duckes meate or water Lentilles, in duch wasser linse. 1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature III. 179 The water-lentil of our marshes, as well as the typha of our rivers, has the middle of it's leaf swelled. 1871 tr. F.-A. Pouchet Universe 264 The water-lentil..spreads its carpet of verdure on the surface of our pools. 2008 N. Kozloff Revolution! vi. 150 Following the emergence of the water lentil, the authorities declared an ‘environmental emergency’ in Lake Maracaibo. < as lemmas |
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