ragged robin

短语

n. 仙翁花

词形变化

ragged robins 复数 ragged robins

别名

ragged robbin ragged-robin

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A type of wild campion (Silene flos-cuculi, syn. Lychnis flos-cuculi), in the family Caryophyllaceae, which grows across Europe and has pink flowers.

    英国

    He had a suit of summer mufti, and a broad-brimmed blue beaver hat looped with leaves broken from the hedgerows in the lanes, and a Leander scarf tucked full of flowers: loosestrife, meadowrue, orchis, ragged-robin.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

cuckooflower

上位词 2

catchfly lychnis

词源

From ragged + robin, probably because of the untidy appearance of its petals.

来源：wiktionary