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单词 white bottle
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white bottlen.

Brit. /ˈwʌɪtbɒtl/, U.S. /ˈ(h)waɪtˌbɑd(ə)l/
Forms: Middle English qwyt bothel, Middle English whit bothel, 1600s– white bottle.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: white adj., bottle n.2
Etymology: < white adj. + bottle n.2 Compare bluebottle n.
Now rare.
Originally: any of various plants, probably having white flowers, perhaps including ox-eye daisy and a kind of cornflower. In later use: spec. bladder campion, Silene vulgaris, which has a whitish flower with an inflated calyx.
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goldOE
buddle?a1350
great daisya1400
white bottlea1400
bigolda1500
maudlin-wort1552
chrysanthemum1578
ox-eyea1637
whiteweed1642
ox-eye daisy1731
moonflower1787
ox-daisy1813
ox-eyed daisy1817
pyrethrum1837
horse-gowan1842
marguerite1847
maudlin daisy1855
moon daisy1855
pompom1861
moon-penny1866
crown daisy1875
Korean chrysanthemum1877
Paris daisy1882
mum1891
Shasta daisy1901
chrysanth1920
penny-daisy1920
Korean1938
Nippon daisy1939
a1400 Alphita (Selden) (1887) 45 Consolida media,..habet..florem album latum et durum, similem camomille sed maiorem..ace. whit-bothel uel seynt Mary maythe.
?a1450 Agnus Castus (Stockh.) (1950) 148 Consolida media. is an herbe þat men clepe qwyt bothel. [a1450 Royal wyth boþume, a1500 Harl. white bothom] or qwyth golde.
1651 J. French Art Distillation ii. 56 Take..White-bottles, Scabius, Dandelyon,..of each one handfull.
1662 tr. F. Plater et al. Golden Pract. Physick (new ed.) ii. xvii. 437/1 Half a dram of Sperma cæti. or pouder of Snake-weed, Tormentil, flowers of St. Johns wort, great Cyanus or White-bottle.
1738 G. C. Deering Catalogus Stirpium 136 White-bottle, or rather Bladder Campion..Grows mostly amongst the Corn.
1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) II. 412 Spatling Poppy. White Bottle. Bladder Campion. Corn fields and dry meadows and pastures, common.
1866 J. G. Wood Homes without Hands 531 The Hoop-shaver Bee..strips off the down that clothes the stem of the common bladder-campion, or white-bottle.
1895 Album 29 July 158/1 The sight of these ‘white bottles,’ as the village folk call them, recalls a story of the island of Minorca.
1908 Bull. L'Herbier Boissier 8 409 The name of Silene inflata for the white-bottle is in all but universal use, and has been so for 108 years.
1990 A. L. Mitchell Dried Flower Garden ii. 90/1 (heading) Silene vulgaris (bladder campion or white bottle).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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