单词 | catchfly |
释义 | catchflyn. Any of numerous herbaceous plants of the genera Silene and Lychnis (family Caryophyllaceae), typically having sticky areas on the stems and calyces which may trap small insects. Frequently with distinguishing word.No plants of this family are carnivorous, as the insects they trap are not digested.night-flowering catchfly, Nottingham catchfly, Spanish catchfly, sticky catchfly, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Caryophyllaceae (chickweeds and allies) > [noun] > campion and ragged robin cow-rattle14.. campion1576 behen1578 crowsoap1578 white campion1578 catchfly1597 feather-top wild campion1597 frothy poppy1597 lime-wort1597 nonsuch1597 sea campion1597 spattling poppy (also campion)1597 Greek rose1601 lychnis1601 knap-bottle1640 moss pink1641 Lobel's catchfly1664 red robin1678 moss campion1690 red campion1728 round robin1741 Silene1751 Nottingham catchfly1762 silenal1836 Robin Hood1844 thunder-flower1853 gunpowder weed1860 sea-catchfly1864 robin redbreast1880 poppy1886 thunderbolt1886 rattleweed1893 cancer1896 bladder-campion- 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 482 The whole plant, as wel leaues & stalkes, as also the flowers, are couered ouer with a most thicke and clammie matter like vnto Birde lime... I haue called it Catch flie, or Lime woort. 1648 J. Bobart Eng. Catal. in Catalogus Plantarum Horti Medici Oxoniensis Catchfly red. Muscipula rubra. White catchfly, Muscipula flo. albo. 1656 W. Coles Art of Simpling ix. 29 Some have a viscous matter adhering to it, as Catchfly. 1670 J. Ray Catalogus Plantarum Angliæ 202 Lychnis sylvestris viscosa rubra angustifolia... The Red Germane Catchflie. Upon the Rocks in Edinburgh-Park. Tho. Willisel. 1736 Compl. Family-piece ii. iii. 299 Double Catchfly. 1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) II. 413 S[ilene] anglica..English Catchfly. 1838 C. MacIntosh Flower-Garden 108/1 Portuguese Catchfly. (Silene Lusitanica)... Straight catchfly. (Silene stricta) [etc.]. 1863 S. Baring-Gould Iceland 192 Among the pebbles grows the red alpine catchfly. 1924 W. H. Fitch et al. Illustr. Brit. Flora (ed. 5) 34 Silene acaulis L. Dwarf catchfly, moss campion; p[urple]. 1953 Virginia Mag. Hist. & Biogr. 61 42 Catchfly (Lychnis); Swamp sweet william. 2007 C. A. Hall Introd. Geol. S. Calif. Species Index 468/1 Silene gallica (windmill pink, common catchfly). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1597 |
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