单词 | pestilence-wort |
释义 | † ˈpestilence-wort Herb. Obs. Also 7– pestilent-wort. [ad. Ger. pestilenzwurz, pestwurz, from its repute against the Plague.] A bookname for the Butterbur, Petasites vulgaris. α [1548Turner Names of Herbes (E.D.S.) 61 Petasites is called in the South partes of Englande a Butter bur,..the duch cal it pestilentz kraute [1562 ― Herbal ii. 83 Pestilentz wurtz]. 1578Lyte Dodoens i. xiii. 21 In Englishe Butter Burre: in high Douch Pestilentz-wurtz: in base Almaigne..Pestilentie wortel. ]1640Parkinson Theat. Bot. Table 1742 Pestilence wort is the Butter Burre. 1841W. H. Ainsworth Old St. Paul's I. 232 He likewise collected a number of herbs and simples, as Virginian snake weed, contrayerva, pestilence-wort, angelica, elicampane. β1597Gerarde Herbal Table Eng. Names, Pestilent woorts, that is water Burre Docke. 1617Minsheu Ductor, Pestilent woorts..i. herba pestilentialis: quia radix huius multum valet contra pestem. 1766Museum Rust. VI. 450 Butter-bur or Pestilent-wort, resembles Colt's-foot in many respects; but the flowers are purple, and grow in a thyrse. |

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