单词 | water lily |
释义 | water lilyn. 1. Any of various aquatic plants constituting the family Nymphaeaceae, having large, rounded floating leaves and showy emergent flowers; esp. the widespread Nymphaea alba (more fully white water lily) and Nuphar lutea (more fully yellow water lily). Cf. lotus n. 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > water-lilies edockec1000 water rose?a1300 mead-flower?a1350 water beanc1400 water coltsfoot14.. nenuphar?a1425 water lily?a1425 lotec1487 lotusc1487 nymphaea1543 water-can1622 can-dock1661 lotus flower1710 pond lily1748 Indian lotus1797 padma1799 Nuphar1822 beaver-root1832 splatterdock1832 frog-lily1845 brandy-bottle1846 Victoria1846 water nymph1848 lotus lily1857 cow-lily1862 pool lily1902 ?a1425 MS Hunterian 95 f. 196, in Middle Eng. Dict. at Lilie Lilium aquaticum, watir lilie. a1500 in T. Hunt Plant Names Medieval Eng. (1989) 185 [Nenufar] gallice lelie de ewe, anglice watirlelie. 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Rhopalon, a water lyly, called communely Nenuphar. c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 53 I sau the vattir lille quhilk is ane remeid contrar gomoria. 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 672 The white water Lillie or Nenuphar, hath great round leaues, in shape of a buckler. 1652 N. Culpeper Eng. Physitian Enlarged 120 The white Water-Lilly hath very large, round and thick dark green leaves. 1788 W. Cowper (title) The dog and the water-lily. 1818 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto IV lxvii. 36 While, chance, some scatter'd water-lily sails Down where the shallower wave still tells its bubbling tales. 1882 Garden 11 Nov. 421/1 There is the giant blue Water Lily of Australia. 1897 H. Tennyson Alfred Ld. Tennyson: Mem. I. xxii. 471 My father..said, ‘The Isle of Wight looked like a water-lily on a blue lake.’ 1937 Amer. Home Apr. 146/4 (advt.) This Dwarf Water Lily is the smallest variety known and will grow and bloom indoors. 1967 S. Marshall Fenland Chron. (1998) ii. iv. 195 Then there'd be yellow water lilies and ‘hen-and-chickens’, the pretty pink clusters of flowering rush. 2007 Wall St. Jrnl. 1 Sept. p8/3 Water-lilies floated on a cheerful little hubblebubbling stream. 2. Chiefly regional. Any of various other aquatic or moisture-loving flowering plants, as yellow flag ( Iris pseudacorus), marsh marigold ( Caltha palustris), bog arum ( Calla palustris), and water crowfoot ( Ranunculus aquatilis).In quot. 1864: the New Zealand mountain buttercup, Ranunculus lyallii. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > water-lilies > plant resembling water lily1653 1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler ii. 40 Look down at the bottom of the hil, there in that Meadow, chequered with water Lillies and Lady-smocks. View more context for this quotation 1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 317 Lily, Lesser Yellow Water, with fringed Flowers, Menyanthes. 1864 J. D. Hooker Handbk. N.Z. Flora (2011) I. 4 R[anunculus] Lyallii... ‘Water Lily’ of the shepherds. 1886 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester Water Lily, the arum lily, Calla palustris. 1893 G. E. Dartnell & E. H. Goddard Gloss. Words Wilts. Water-lily (1) Caltha palustris. (2) Ranunculus aquatilis. 1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. 378/2 Water-lily,..(a) the yellow iris Iris pseudacorus; (b) the common water crowfoot Ranunculus aquatilis. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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