| 单词 |
dyer's weed |
| 释义 |
ˈdyer's weed A name given to plants that yield a dye: esp. Yellow-weed or Weld, Reseda Luteola; also Dyer's greenweed or Woadwaxen, Genista tinctoria, and Dyer's woad, Isatis tinctoria.
1578Lyte Dodoens i. xlvii. 68 Of Dyers weede..The leaues of this herbe are..not much vnlike the leaues of Woad..It is vsed of Dyers to colour and dye their clothes into greene, and yellow. 1649W. Blithe Eng. Improv. Impr. (1653) 224 In our English Welde or Dyars-Weed. 1794Martyn Rousseau's Bot. xx. 280 Dyers-weed or Weld grows common in barren pastures, dry banks, and on walls. 1861[see prec.]. 1866Treas. Bot., Dyer's-weed..also..Isatis tinctoria. Ibid. s.v. Reseda, R. Luteola, the Weld, Yellow-weed, or Dyer's Weed. |
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