| 单词 | butter leaves |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbutter leaves butter leaves n. now historical and rare either of two herbaceous plants having (large) leaves which were formerly used to wrap butter: garden orache, Atriplex hortensis, and monk's rhubarb, Rumex alpinus; (also) the leaves themselves; cf. butterdock n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Chenopodiaccae (goose-foot and allies) > [noun] > salt bush or orach milesOE orachea1300 golden herb1562 notchweed1659 sea pot-herb1706 lamb's quarter1773 butter leaves1789 fat-hen1795 mountain spinach1822 sea-orach1845 salt bush1863 1789 W. Marshall Rural Econ. Glocestershire I. 285 What the dairywomen call ‘butter leaves’; namely, the leaves of the Atriplex hortensis, or garden orach; which dairywomen in general sow in their gardens, annually, for this purpose [i.e. for packing butter in]. 1878 W. Dickinson Gloss. Words & Phrases Cumberland (ed. 2) 13/2 Butter leaves, the leaves of the mountain dock, Rumex alpinus, used for packing pounds of butter in the market-basket. 1933 House & Garden Nov. 74/3 Orach is a tall, somewhat branched annual formerly grown as a green. Its other English names are Butter Leaves, and Mountain Spinach. 2016 E. Khosrova Butter i. v. 97 Provincially called butter leaves, the plant was sown annually in the garden just for the purpose of enveloping and protecting butter. < as lemmas |
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