单词 | canada snakeroot |
释义 | > as lemmasCanada snakeroot 1. Designating plants, animals, etc., native to or originating in Canada, as Canada grouse, Canada hemp, Canada snakeroot, Canada stag, etc.Canada true love: see the second element.In Canada diamond (see quot. 1601) and in earlier diamond of Canada (see quot. 1568) referring to the mining (earliest in 1541) of what were at first thought to be diamonds at the mouth of Rivière du Cap-Rouge in Quebec; these Canada ‘diamonds’ proved to be quartz. (True diamonds have been mined in northern regions of Canada since the 1990s.) ΚΠ 1568 T. Hacket tr. A. Thevet New Found Worlde f. 130v And from thence came this prouerbe or common worde, (it is a Dyamond of Canada [Fr. c'est vn diamant de Canada]) it is lyke to the Diamonds of Calicut, and of the Easte Indies.] 1601 R. Dolman tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. III. 421 In the isle of Canada [Fr. l'isle de Canada], which neighboureth vpon Florida, there are found false ones [sc. diamonds], but so faire and well cut by nature, that the most subtile Lapidaries are verie much troubled to discerne the one from the other: whereupon this Prouerbe did arise. Loe, theres a Canada-diamond [Fr. vn Diamant de Canada]. 1623 F. Wyatt Proclamation 31 Aug. in S. M. Kingsbury Recs. Virginia Company (1935) IV. 272 Newfound-Land ffifish..Canada ffish. 1651 R. Child Large Let. in S. Hartlib Legacie 32 The first sort is the Parsley Vine or Canada-grape; because it first came from those parts, where it growes naturally. 1736 Compl. Family-piece ii. iii. 307 There are several other Trees and Shrubs which are now in Flower, as..upright sweet Canada Rasberries. 1792 J. Leslie tr. Comte de Buffon Nat. Hist. Birds III. 412 The Canada bird, delineated..under the name of Canada Grosbeak, and which we have called Hard bill, because its bill is comparatively harder, shorter, and stronger, than in the others. 1837 Penny Cycl. VIII. 359/1 The French in America call this beast [sc. Cervus Wapiti] the Canada Stag. 1849 J. H. Balfour Man. Bot. 491 Asarum canadense, Wild Ginger, or Canada Snake-root, is used as a spice in Canada. 1861 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. III. 284 Canada Flea-bane..a dull-looking plant, with small heads of dingy flowers. 1900 W. A. N. Dorland Amer. Illustr. Med. Dict. 58/1 The root of A. cannabinum, or Canada hemp, is cathartic and expectorant. 1910 G. B. Grinnell Amer. Game-bird Shooting i. 125 The Canada grouse, a small, blackish bird, variously marked below with spots of white and with the tail tipped with rusty reddish. 1950 W. O. Douglas Of Men & Mountains vi. 76 I saw on the opposite bank a great mass of Canada dogwood or bunchberry. 2009 Birdwatch Winter 6/3 We can hope that in 20 years, birders won't feel compelled to charter flights to ‘twitch’ the lone, singing Canada Warbler. < as lemmas |
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