英语词汇“Potentilla”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

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Potentilla

释义

‖ Potentilla Bot.|pəʊtənˈtɪlə|
[med.L. potentilla, f. L. potens, -ent-em potent + dim. -illa; applied a 1500 to the Garden Valerian or Phu; in 16th c. to Potentilla anserina, whence adopted by Linnæus as name of the genus.]
An extensive genus of Rosaceæ, comprising herbs and undershrubs, of which the Silverweed, Cinquefoil, and Tormentil are common British species.
[c1300Simon Januensis, Amantilla, potentilla, fu, valleriana idem.c1450Alphita (Anecd. Oxon.) 150 Portentilla, amantilla idem.Ibid. 69 Fu, ualeriana, amantilla, ueneria, portentilla.]1548Turner Names of Herbes H iv, Portentilla or as some write Potentilla, is named also Tanacetum syluestre..in englishe wylde Tansey.1578Lyte Dodoens i. lix. 86. 1706 Phillips, Potentilla, (Lat.) wild Tansey or Silver-weed; an Herb so call'd from its admirable Virtues.1776Withering Brit. Plants (1796) II. 477 Which confirms the opinion of those who maintain that Potentilla and Tormentilla are not distinct genera.1867H. Macmillan Bible Teach. ii. (1870) 30 Golden geums and potentillas gleamed like miniature suns.1883G. Allen in Longm. Mag. 306 The potentillas are a group of very lowly and primitive roses.

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