单词 | meadow beauty |
释义 | meadow beauty in American English US any of a genus (Rhexia) of perennial North American plants of the melastome family, with pink or lavender flowers and large stamens meadow beauty in American Englishnoun any of several North American plants of the genus Rhexia, esp. R. mariana or R. virginica, having showy rose-pink flowers with eight prominent bright yellow stamens Also called: deer grass Word origin [1830–40, Amer.]This word is first recorded in the period 1830–40. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: grid, isometric, orientation, paraffin, showcase |
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