温馨提示：本站仅提供公开网络链接索引服务，不存储、不篡改任何第三方内容，所有内容版权归原作者所有
AI智能索引来源：http://www.wehd.com/10/Blue_bell.html
点击访问原文链接

Blue bell, blue-bell. World English Historical Dictionary

进入原网站 导航首页
Blue bell, blue-bell. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1888, rev. 2024. Blue bell, blue-bell [see BELL sb.1 4.] The popular name of two widely different flowers.

1   1.  A species of Campanula (C. rotundifolia) which grows on open downs, hills, and dry places, and flowers in summer and autumn, with a loose panicle of delicate blue bell-shaped flowers on slender peduncles. This is the ‘blue bell of Scotland,’ and of the north of England, and of the Elizabethan herbalists.

2 1578.  Lyte, Dodoens, II. xxiii. 174. Blew Belles [with a figure of Campanula] whan their plante beginneth first to spring up … haue small rounde leaues.

3 1783.  Ainsworth, Lat. Dict. (Morell), I. Blue bells, or bell flowers, Campanula flore cæruleo.

4 1795.  Burns, Their Groves o’ sweet Myrtle, ii. Where the blue-bell and gowan lurk.

5 1837.  Lockhart, Scott (1839), VII. 178. He had scrambled to gather blue bells and heath flowers.

6 a. 1872.  W. Miller, The Blue Bell, in Poets & Poetry of Scotl., 1877, II. 340. For glaumorie is round the sweet blue bell.

7   2.  In the south of Eng. generally and in many modern Eng. poets: a bulbous-rooted plant, Scilla nutans (Hyacinthus non-scriptus Linn.), growing in moist woods and among grass, and flowering in spring, with a nodding raceme of drooping narrow bell-like flowers.

8   (Those who call this ‘blue-bell’ or ‘bluebell,’ generally call the other ‘hair-bell’ or ‘hare-bell.’)

9 1794.  Martyn, Rousseau’s Bot., xviii. 250. The Wild Hyacinth or Blue-Bells of the European woods.

10 1802.  Southey, Thalaba, IV. xxiii. Amid the growing grass The blue-bell bends, the golden king-cup shines, And the sweet cowslip scents the genial air.

11 1846.  Keble, Lyra Innoc., IV. vii. 121. Forest bluebells in a row Stoop to the first May wind.

12 1851.  Mary Howitt, Sk. Nat. Hist., 83. The nodding Bluebell’s graceful flowers, The Hyacinth of this land of ours.

13 © 2024 WEHD.com

智能索引记录