| 单词 | yellow monkey flower |
| 释义 | > as lemmasyellow monkey flower 1. Any of various plants of the chiefly North American genus Mimulus (see Mimulus n. 1); esp. (more fully yellow monkey flower) M. guttatus or one of its hybrids, with showy bright yellow flowers spotted or blotched with red, which are often cultivated and widely naturalized by rivers and streams in Britain. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > foxglove and allied flowers > allied flowers penstemon1760 musk plant1769 monkey flower1786 nemesia1815 lady's slipper1835 musk flower1835 calceolaria1846 Gerardia1851 musk1866 tiger-mouth1886 tiger's mouth1886 three-birds1889 1786 J. Abercrombie Gardeners Daily Assistant 61/2 Monkey flower (mimulus). Ringent or grinning. Yellow. 1796 C. Marshall Gardening (1798) xix. 344 Monkey flower, or American fox glove, blue. 1833 Edwards's Bot. Reg. 19 Pl. 1591 This beautiful Monkey-flower was sent by Mr. Douglas from Northern California in 1831. 1858 A. Irvine Illustr. Handbk. Brit. Plants 454 M. luteus, Willd. Yellow Monkey-flower... Flowers large, yellow, one of the lobes of the corolla with a purple spot. 1882 Garden 24 June 437/3 The..dull cupreus section of Monkey flowers. 1915 M. Armstrong & J. J. Thornber Field Bk. Western Wild Flowers 494 Scarlet Monkey-flower Mimulus cardinalis... I first saw these gorgeous flowers glowing like bits of flame among the ferns and grasses that bordered a beautiful spring in a cave in the Grand Canyon. 1930 Nature Mag. (U.S.) Mar. 156/1 Even up beyond the treeline many delicate blooms,—moss campion, snowlilies, monkey flowers and a variety of heaths and herbs,—find precarious frigid homes in the rocks. 1931 C. E. Salmon Flora of Surrey 486 M. Langsdorfii Donn. Yellow Monkey-flower. Alien; native of North America. Naturalised by rivers and streams. 1980 R. Mabey & T. Evans Flowering of Brit. ii. 85 Of all garden escapes, I cannot think of one which has blended so thoroughly..into our natural landscape as the monkey flower, Mimulus guttatus. 1994 Denver Post 10 Dec. e2/4 Cool rock chasms where ferns, columbines, monkey flowers and other wild plants grow. < as lemmas |
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