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单词 zizania
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zizanian.

Brit. /zᵻˈzeɪnɪə/, /zʌɪˈzeɪnɪə/, U.S. /zəˈzeɪniə/, /zaɪˈzeɪniə/
Forms: 1500s zizaniam, 1500s– zizania.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin zizania.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin zizania zizany n. In sense 2 after scientific Latin Zizania, genus name ( J. F. Gronovius Flora Virginica (1743) 189). Compare earlier zizany n.Valid publication of the genus name: Linnaeus Species Plantarum (1753) II. 991. In form zizaniam after the Latin accusative singular form.
1. A weed that grows among wheat; tares, darnel; = zizany n. 1. Also figurative: a pernicious influence or unwanted element; cf. tare n.1 3. Obsolete.Quot. a1398 shows a use of a form of the Latin word in an English context.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > [noun] > a harmful thing or person > like a weed
weedeOE
popplea1425
darnel1444
zizania1526
thistle1563
zizany1581
fungus1659
tare1686
the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > weed > [noun] > other weeds
zizanya1400
hog's fennel1525
zizania1526
eyebright1578
henbit1578
red eye-bright1657
common orache1728
sitfast1762
winter weed1787
dubbeltjie1795
red bartsia1805
tread-softly1814
rattlesnake leaf1822
popple1855
horse-nettle1860
Cape weed1878
tree-tobacco1895
king devil1898
khaki weed1907
white top1909
three-corner jack1919
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. cxciv. 1089 Ray hatte zysannia and is a certein herbe... He..is liche to whete whanne it is in grasse.]
1526 Grete Herball cccclxxix. sig. Bb.ijv/1 Zizania is an euyll wede yt groweth in the wheate, and corrupteth whan the weder is drye.
1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 41 There is great lyknes betwene whete and zizaniam, which we call lolium.
1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 829/2 The doctrine of the Bohemians, whiche he termeth by the name of Zizania.
1612 T. James Iesuits Downefall 8 With their Zizaniaes of faction, they make boot & havocke of Catholickes estates.
1744 D. Hillman in Tusser's Five Hundred Points Husb. 32 (note) One would think they were of the Devil's own sowing, the ancient Zizania.
1809 C. Simeon Evangelical & Pharisiac Righteousness Compared 17 Some indeed think, that because the servants distinguished the zizania from the wheat, there was no resemblance between them.
2. Botany. An aquatic grass of the genus Zizania; wild rice. Also (in form Zizania): the genus itself.
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the world > plants > valued plants and weeds > [noun] > weed > tare(s)
zizanya1400
taresa1425
titter1573
furrow-weed1608
zizania1756
walder1764
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [noun] > rice > types of rice or rice-plants
fundi1670
ricea1710
wild rice1748
zizania1756
zizany1759
water oats1771
Canada rice1786
Carolina rice1787
menomin1791
Patna rice1795
Indian rice1809
pulut1820
dhan1832
hungry rice1858
swamp rice1861
Menominee1949
miracle rice1968
1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. ii. 340 The larger Zizania, with a scattered panicle.
1829 T. Castle Introd. Systematical & Physiol. Bot. 157 The zizania or Canada-rice.
1847 J. C. Prichard Res. Physical Hist. Mankind (ed. 3) V. vi. v. §6. 395 The Menomonies are called ‘Folles Avoines’, or Wild Oats, from the wild rice or zizania which their country produces.
1901 L. H. Pammel et al. Grasses Iowa 18 In Zizania and Bromus, Zea and other grasses the epidermis is followed by sclerenchyma sheath.
1991 R. H. M. Langer & G. D. Hill Agric. Plants (ed. 2) iv. 139 Another genus is Zizania, a wild plant whose grains were collected by North American Indians as an important source of food.
2009 Wetlands 29 724 Wetlands that exhibited the greatest loss of Zizania tended to have higher levels of residential development within their watershed.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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