英语词汇“widow flower”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

† widow flower n. Obsolete either of two perennial plants having purple flowers, sweet scabious ( Scabiosa atropurpurea) and field scabious ( Knautia arvensis); cf. mourning widow n. 2(b). [Compare French fleur de veuve (1771 or earlier), German Witwenblume (1776), and also French veuve (1771 or earlier in this sense).] S. atropurpurea is also called mourning bride. K. arvensis was formerly placed in the genus Scabiosa.

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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Dipsacaceae (teasel and allies) > [noun] > scabious or devil's bit

scabiousc1400

devil's-bit1526

fore-bit1597

forebitten more1597

gypsy flower1620

widow flower1789

fire-leaves1796

mourning bride1811

gypsy rose1830

mournful widow1846

starhead1852

1789 tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Ship-wreck II. xvi. 39 One would imagine it [sc. the scabious] was in mourning; and it is for this reason called the widow flower [Fr. fleur de veuve].

1799 J. Ebers New & Compl. Dict. German & Eng. Lang. III. 897/1 Wittwenblume, die, the Scabious, the Widow-Flower.

1856 Ladies' Cabinet June 336/1 Field Scabious (S. arvensis), or ‘widow flower’, bows its handsome lilac heads amongst the waving corn.

1882 Garden 11 Mar. 155/3 The purple Scabious..is known in some places by the name of the Widow Flower.

单词	widow flower
释义	> as lemmas widow flower † widow flower n. Obsolete either of two perennial plants having purple flowers, sweet scabious ( Scabiosa atropurpurea) and field scabious ( Knautia arvensis); cf. mourning widow n. 2(b). [Compare French fleur de veuve (1771 or earlier), German Witwenblume (1776), and also French veuve (1771 or earlier in this sense).] S. atropurpurea is also called mourning bride. K. arvensis was formerly placed in the genus Scabiosa. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Dipsacaceae (teasel and allies) > [noun] > scabious or devil's bit scabiousc1400 devil's-bit1526 fore-bit1597 forebitten more1597 gypsy flower1620 widow flower1789 fire-leaves1796 mourning bride1811 gypsy rose1830 mournful widow1846 starhead1852 1789 tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Ship-wreck II. xvi. 39 One would imagine it [sc. the scabious] was in mourning; and it is for this reason called the widow flower [Fr. fleur de veuve]. 1799 J. Ebers New & Compl. Dict. German & Eng. Lang. III. 897/1 Wittwenblume, die, the Scabious, the Widow-Flower. 1856 Ladies' Cabinet June 336/1 Field Scabious (S. arvensis), or ‘widow flower’, bows its handsome lilac heads amongst the waving corn. 1882 Garden 11 Mar. 155/3 The purple Scabious..is known in some places by the name of the Widow Flower. extracted from widown. < as lemmas
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