“Oxalis”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

Oxalis

释义

‖ Oxalis Bot.|ˈɒksəlɪs|
[L. oxalis, oxalid- (Pliny), a. Gr. ὀξαλίς (Diosc.), f. ὀξ-ύς sour, acid. In mod.F. oxalide.]
A large genus of plants (type of family Oxalidaceæ, otherwise reckoned as a tribe, Oxalideæ, of Geraniaceæ), mostly ornamental herbs, with delicate five-parted flowers of various colours, and leaves usually of three leaflets; the common British species is O. Acetosella, Wood Sorrel.
[1601Holland Pliny xx. xxi, Touching the Docke..there is a wild kind thereof, which some call Oxalis in Greeke, (i. wild Sorrell, or Soure-docke).]1706Phillips, Oxalis, wild Sorrel or Wood-Sorrel, an Herb.1797Wollaston in Phil. Trans. LXXXVII. 399 The saccharine acid is known to be a natural product of a species of oxalis.1856Ruskin Mod. Paint. IV. v. xx. §5 The exquisite oxalis is preeminently a mountaineer.

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