| 单词 | cankerwort |
| 释义 | > as lemmascankerwort cankerwort n. [compare cancerwort n. at cancer n. and adj. Compounds 4] †(a) probably a plant of the genus Lithospermum (cf. gromwell n. a) (obsolete); (b) dandelion (now chiefly historical) (cf. sense 8c); †(c) = cancerwort n. at cancer n. and adj. Compounds 4 (obsolete). ΚΠ c1400 in T. Hunt Plant Names Medieval Eng. (1989) 74 [Cauda Porcina] greynmyle, cankirworth. 1597 J. Gerard Herball Table Eng. Names Cankerwort, that is Pisse in bed. 1633 T. Johnson Gerard's Herball (new ed.) Table Eng. Names Cankerwort, i. Fluellin. 1908 A. R. Harding Ginseng & Other Medicinal Plants (rev. ed.) xxxi. 319 Dandelion... Other Common Names—Blow-ball, cankerwort, doon-head, clock. 1958 Berkshire Eagle (Pittsfield, Mass.) 20 Aug. 23/3 The herbalists named most of these plants, and the names referred to their special uses. There was cankerwort, for instance. 2007 D. Sanderson Drunk in Sunlight 63 They've woken up miraculously old, Not swinesnout now or cankerwort, Not teeth of lions scattered on the lawn, But silver geodesic ghosts. < as lemmas |
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