| 单词 | white-rattle |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswhite-rattle 1. Any of several plants of the related genera Rhinanthus and Pedicularis (family Orobanchaceae), which have seeds that rattle in the capsule when ripe and are chiefly parasitic weeds of meadows and pastures; spec. (a) (in full †mead-rattle, †white-rattle, yellow rattle) cockscomb, R. minor; (b) (in full red rattle) either of the louseworts P. sylvatica and P. palustris. Occasionally also in plural with singular agreement.Frequently with distinguishing word usually denoting the colour of the flowers.mead, marsh red, red, yellow rattle: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > weed > [noun] > cock's-comb yellow rattleOE coxcomba1500 penny-grassa1500 cockcomb1687 rattlebox1866 fiddle-cases1878 lousewort1901 OE Brussels Gloss. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 296 Bobonica, hratele. c1300 in T. Hunt Plant Names Medieval Eng. (1989) 64 [Camepitheos] anglice rachille [prob. read rathille]. a1400 in T. Hunt Plant Names Medieval Eng. (1989) 64 [Camepitheos] rathhele. 1523 in T. Hunt Plant Names Medieval Eng. (1989) 64 [Camepitheos] mederatel or ratyl or fartyng-grasse. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iv. lvi. 516 Yellow Rattel. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Creste au coq, ou, de coq, the hearbe coxcombe, Penie-grasse, yellow and white Rattle. 1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 255 Rattles they hand-weed as soon as in flower. 1756 J. Hill Brit. Herbal 120 We confusedly call two genera in English by the name of rattle, distinguishing them only by epithets taken from the colour of the flower into red and yellow rattle. 1777 J. Lightfoot Flora Scotica I. 322 Yellow-Rattle, or Cock's-Comb. Anglis... The seeds..when ripe, rattle in their capsules, and indicate the time of hay-harvest. 1854 S. Thomson Wanderings among Wild Flowers (ed. 4) iii. 209 We must not overlook the yellow rattle.., for ere long its seeds will be rattling in its seed-vessel. 1880 R. Jefferies Hodge & Masters II. 281 ‘Rattles’ and similar plants destructive to the hay crop. 1911 Times 21 June 7/6 The weed known as yellow rattle, rattles, rattle-grass, cock's-comb and horsepenny is very abundant in some districts this season. 1943 R. Morse Bk. of Wildflowers x. 88 The yellowrattle..is by no means alone in this strange, root-sucking habit... The common redrattle, or lousewort, behaves in a precisely similar way. 1994 Times 2 July (Weekend section) 16/5 The grass sparkles with meadow saxifrage and yellow rattle. < as lemmas |
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