tormentil

n. 直立委陵菜 [医] 洋委陵菜, 洋翻白草

词形变化

tormentils 复数 tormentils

别名

tormentilla

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A low-growing herb (Potentilla erecta, syn. Potentilla tormentilla).

    可数 不可数

    1615, Helkiah Crooke, Mikrokosmographia, London: William Jaggard, “A Dilucidation or Exposition of the Controuersies concerning the Historie of the Infant,” Question 31, p. 340, […] the hearbe Tormentill which hath seauen leaues resisteth all poysons.

词源

From mediaeval Latin tormentilla (“minor pain”), perhaps referring to the conditions that the plant was used to treat.

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