whin

n. 荆豆 [医] 荆豆

发音

/wɪn/
/ʍɪn/

词形变化

whins 复数

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Gorse; furze (Ulex spp.).

    可数 不可数

    1790, Robert Burns, Tam o' Shanter, 1828, Thomas Park (editor), Works of the British Poets, Volume XX: The Poems of Robert Burns, page 65, By this time he was cross the ford, / Whare in the snaw the chapman smoor'd; / And past the birks and meikle stane, / Whare drunken Charlie brak's neck-bane; / And through the whins, and by the cairn, / Whare hunters fand the murder'd bairn; / And near the thorn, aboon the well, / Whare Mungo's mither hang'd hersel.

  2. 2.

    The plant woad-waxen (Genista tinctoria).

    可数 不可数
  3. 1.

    Whinstone.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 9

dyer's broom dyer's greenweed dyeweed furze gorse greenweed whinstone woad-waxen woodwaxen

上位词 5

rock stone bush broom shrub

词源

From Middle English whynne, from Old Norse hvein (“gorse, furze”) (compare Norwegian kvein (“bent grass”), Swedish ven (“bent grass”), dialectal hven (“swamp”)), apparently from hvein (“swampy land”), from Proto-Germanic *hwainō, *hwin- (“swamp; moor”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱʷeyn- (“to soil; mud; filth”). Compare Latin caenum (“filth”), Latin inquīnō (“to sully; soil”).

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