英语词汇“widow、wail”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

单词

widow-wail

释义

widow-wail
[See quot. 1597.]
a. A name for the shrub Mezereon (Daphne Mezereum) or other species of Daphne.
b. A shrub of the genus Cneorum (N.O. Simarubaceæ), esp. C. tricoccum, a dwarf shrub with evergreen leaves and pink sweet-scented flowers, found in Spain and the south of France.
1597Gerarde Herbal iii. lviii. 1215 Chamelæa Arabum Tricoccos. Widow Wayle... It is also named of diuers Oliuella, as Mathæus Syluaticus saith: it is called in English Widow Wayle. quia facit viduas.Ibid. lx. 1217 Thymelea. Spurge Flaxe, or mountaine Widow Wayle.1601Holland Pliny xxiv. xv. II. 198 Chamelæa [marg.] otherwise called Mezereon, Widow-waile.1697Phil. Trans. XIX. 396 Tricoccos Shrubs called Widdow-Wayles.1760J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 331 Widow Wail, Cneorum.1846Keightley Notes Virgil Flora 380 Spurge-flax or Mountain Widow-wail.

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