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单词 water pennywort
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water pennywort
b. More fully marsh pennywort, water pennywort. A small creeping plant with round undivided leaves, Hydrocotyle vulgaris (family Apiaceae ( Umbelliferae)), growing in marshy places. Also: any of various other plants of the genus Hydrocotyle. Cf. penny-grass n. 3, penny-rot n.
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1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. xxv. 37 Bycause of a certayne similitude..that it hath with Pennywurte of the wall, we do call [it] water Pennywurte [Fr. Nombril de Venus coissant és eaux, Du. Water Navelcruyt].
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 424 Water Pennywoort is called..in English Sheepes killing Pennygrasse, Penny rot.
1651 R. Child Large Let. in S. Hartlib Legacie 100 That Rottennesse proceedeth from a plant called Cotyledon, or Marsh-Penny-wort, which is of a very sharpe taste, and therefore not likely that Sheepe will eate it.
1670 J. Ray Catalogus Plantarum Angliæ 84 Cotyledon aquatica... Marsh-Pennywort, White Rot. In paludosis.
1761 B. Stillingfleet Cal. Flora 27 June Marsh pennywort, Hydrocotule vulgaris.
1791 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 3 165 Hydrocotyle americana, Penny-wort.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 606/1 H[ydrocotyle] vulgaris, common Pennywort, is one of the few British plants which have peltate leaves.
1875 Amer. Naturalist 9 388 In the water, beside many of the grasses and sedges, are found pennywort [etc.].
1885 Outing 7 179/1 All the ground about is carpeted with the light-green leaves of the marsh-pennywort.
1927 Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 54 158 On the bottom is a luxuriant growth of water pennywort, Hydrocotyle umbellata L.
1966 A. Batten & H. Bokelmann Wild Flowers Eastern Cape 111 Hydrocotyle verticillata Thunb. (Waternavel, Pennywort).
1979 D. Spence Shetland's Living Landscape 28 Dune slacks form another close-cropped sward in which brown bent..is abundant with..silverweed and pennywort, Hydrocotyle vulgaris.
1985 C. A. Sinker et al. Ecol. Flora Shropshire Region ii. v. 92 The vegetation includes mesotropic, marsh species such as marsh pennywort and marsh cinquefoil.
2005 D. W. Imm & K. W. McLeod in J. C. Kilgo & J. I. Blake Ecol. & Managem. Forested Landscape iv. 157 Water pennywort occurs along infrequently flooded streamsides.
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