| 单词 | water violet |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswater violet water violet n. an aquatic plant of northern Eurasia with feathery submerged leaves and mauve-tinged white flowers, Hottonia palustris (family Primulaceae); (also) a related plant with smaller flowers, H. inflata, of North America. [Compare Dutch waterviolier (1554 in the passage translated in quot. 1578); compare water gillyflower n.] ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > aquatic, marsh, and sea-shore plants > [noun] > feather-foil water gillyflower1578 water violet1578 water yarrow1597 water milfoil1760 feather-foil1776 water feather1818 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. lxxi. 105 (caption) Viola Palustris. Water violet, or Gyllofer [Fr. gyroflées d'eau, Du. water-filieren]. 1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xvi. 183 Water Violet has a salver-shaped corol not fringed. 1811 Encycl. Londinensis (new ed.) X. 427/2 The common water-violet may be propagated in deep standing waters, by dropping the seeds, as soon as they are ripe, into the water where they are designed to grow. 1980 M. Shoard Theft of Countryside ii. ix. 84 Water violets, frogbit and kingcups..splash the whole area with colour. 2001 Water Gardening Oct. 32/2 The water violet..[is] one of the few free flowering oxygenators with its foliage remaining below the water surface. < as lemmas |
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