单词 | zizania |
释义 | zizanian.ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1526 |
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