单词 | water spike |
释义 | † water spiken. Obsolete. A pondweed of the genus Potamogeton. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > aquatic, marsh, and sea-shore plants > [noun] > pondweed pondweed1578 water spike1578 water caltrop1597 potamogeton1601 frog's lettuce1633 pickerel weed1653 pondweed1706 flatter-dock1820 tench-weeda1825 fish-leaves1886 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. lxxi. 104 The first..of these kindes of floting herbes..is called water spyke, or most commonly Pondeweede [Fr. Potamogeton, Du. fonteyncruyt]. 1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 134/1 Potamogeton, fontinalis,..water speeke, pondweede, or wotergrasse. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxvi. viii. 250 Waterspeeke or Pondweed [Fr. l'herbe des estangs; L. potamogītōn], called in Greek Potamogeton. 1710 W. Salmon Botanologia II. at Riverwort (Index Plantarum) Water-spike. 1855 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. V. 329 Potamogeton natans..An old name for this plant was Water spike. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online June 2020). < n.1578 |
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