| 单词 |
calathian |
| 释义 |
calathian, a.|kəˈleɪθɪən| [ad. L. calathiāna, otherwise, perh. correctly, calatina (viola).] In Calathian Violet, a name transferred from Pliny, identified with a gentian (Gentiana pneumonanthe).
1578Lyte Dodoens ii. xxi, Of Autumne Belfloures, or Calathian Violets..Cordus calleth them Pneumonanthe: and truly it seemeth to be a certayne kinde of Gentian. 1601Holland Pliny II. 85 Some smell not at all, to wit, the Calathian Violet with the small leafe. c1806R. Surtees Poem in Taylor Life (1852) 301 Our autumn fields are with pale gentian set, And the calathian glowing violet. |
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