| 单词 | adonis flower |
| 释义 | > as lemmasadonis flower 3. Originally: the plant pheasant's eye, Adonis annua (also adonis flower). In later use also: any plant of the Eurasian genus Adonis (family Ranunculaceae), comprising plants with finely divided foliage and orange, yellow, or red flowers; (also in form Adonis) the genus itself.Valid publication of the genus name: Linnaeus Species plantarum (1753) I. 547. 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 > delphinium or larkspur red maytheeOE brown maythec1450 lark's foota1500 red maidweed1548 consound1578 lark's claw1578 larkspur1578 ox-eye1578 red camomile1578 Adonis1597 lark-heel1597 lark's toes1597 monkshood1597 rose-a-ruby1597 delphinium1666 pheasant's eye1727 red Morocco1760 rocket larkspur1778 blue rocket larkspur1784 bee-larkspur1846 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 310 The red flower of Adonis groweth wilde in the west parts of Englande among their corne. a1637 B. Jonson Pans Anniv. 30 in Wks. (1640) III Bring Corn-flag, Tulips, and Adonis flower, Faire Oxe-eye, Goldy-locks, and Columbine. 1682 N. Grew Disc. Colours of Plants v. iii. §9 in Anat. Plants 276 Spirit of Sulphur droped on the green Leavs of Adonis Flower, Everlasting Pease, and Holy Oak, turns them all Yellow. 1736 Compl. Family-piece ii. iii. 283 Fennel-leav'd perennial Adonis. 1771 Encycl. Brit. I. 27/2 The English names [of the genus Adonis] are, adonis-flower, pheasant's eye, red maithes, or red morocco. 1779 Faremer's Mag. Nov. 341 Adonis Flower... Frequent in the corn-fields of Kent. 1861 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. I. 14 Adonis (Pheasants' eye)..Name from ‘Adonis’..whose blood was fabled to have stained the flower. 1883 Literary World 8 Sept. 286/1 There are no more roses, nor violet irises, but still great red adonises and other flowers. 1905 Country Life 29 July 116/1 Another plant used in rural fortune-telling is the pretty, but not very common, Adonis flower. 1999 B. J. Ward Contempl. upon Flowers 35 The genus Adonis includes more than twenty species; the two most widely grown are A. vernalis with yellow petals and A. annua with crimson petals. 2007 S. Bales Garden in Winter 99 By summer adonis is dormant, so it should be grown next to a late riser. < as lemmas |
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