单词 | windflower |
释义 | windflowern. a. The wood-anemone ( Anemone nemorosa), or any plant or flower of the genus Anemone. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > buttercup and allied flowers > anemones anemone1548 rose parsley1548 windflower1551 agrimony1578 hepatica1578 liverwort1578 noble agrimony1578 noble liverwort1578 pasque flower1578 Coventry bells1597 flaw-flower1597 herb trinity1597 pulsatilla1597 emony1644 wood-anemone1657 Robin Hood1665 poppy anemone1731 Alpine anemone1774 liverleaf1820 Japan anemone1847 Pennsylvania wind flower1869 smell fox1892 prairie smoke1893 prairie crocus1896 St. Brigid anemone1902 Japanese anemonec1908 Spanish marigold- 1551 W. Turner New Herball sig. C vv Anemone hath the name in Greke of wynde, because the floure neuer openeth it selfe, but when the wynde bloweth..: it may be called wynde floure. 1650 W. How Phytologia Britannica 8 The wood Anemone or Windfloure. 1714 tr. H. Joutel Jrnl. Last Voy. M. de la Sale (1719) 66 A Sort of purple wind Flowers. 1820 P. B. Shelley Sensitive Plant in Prometheus Unbound 158 The pied wind-flowers and the tulip tall. 1852 J. G. Whittier April 5 Where wind-flower and violet..On south-sloping brooksides should smile in the light. 1898 A. Austin Lamia's Winter-quarters 69 The Apennine windflower. b. A name for species of gentian. (Cf. lung-flower n. at lung n. Compounds 2.) ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Gentianaceae (gentians) > [noun] gentianOE fieldwooda1393 baldmoney1393 caresweeta1400 felwort1526 calathian violet1578 crosswort gentian1578 harvest-bell1597 gentianella1633 blue violet1649 marsh gentian1690 vernal gentian1728 pennywort1817 meadow pink1827 soap-gentian1845 soapwort gentian1845 autumn-bells1863 windflower1866 willow gentian1883 1866 in J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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