| 单词 | pyrola |
| 释义 | ‖ pyrola Bot.|ˈpɪrələ|
Also 7 pirola; and in anglicized form, 6 pyrole, 7 pyrol.
[med. or mod.L. dim. of pyrus, med.L. for pirus pear-tree; in F. pirole. So called from the resemblance of the leaves to those of the pear-tree.]
A genus of plants, type of the N.O Pyrolaceæ, often viewed as a sub-order of the Ericaceæ, consisting of smooth herbs, with running underground stems, evergreen usually entire and rounded leaves, and simple racemes of flowers; several of the species are known as wintergreen.
Formerly including some allied plants now removed to other genera, as Moneses grandiflora (Pyrola uniflora) and Chimaphila (Pyrola) umbellata.
1578Lyte Dodoens i. xcii. 134 Pyrola groweth in shadowy places, and moyst wooddes. Ibid. 135 Greene Pyrole is also good to be layde vpon woundes, vlcers, & burnings. 1651Davenant Gondibert ii. vii. iii, New wounds..such..As balm nor juice of pyrol never heals. 1672J. Josselyn New Eng. Rarities 67 Pirola, or Winter Green, that kind which grows with us in England is common in New-England, but there is another plant which I judge to be a kind of Pirola, and proper to this Country. 1834M. Howitt Sk. Nat. Hist., The Garden xii, I found within another wood The rare Pyrola blowing.
Hence pyrolaceous |-ˈeɪʃəs| a., belonging to the Pyrolaceæ (Mayne Expos. Lex., 1858). |
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