Agrimonyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈæɡ.ɹɪ.mən.i/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈæɡ.ɹɪˌmoʊ.ni/

名詞

agrimony (plural agrimonies)

1. Any of several perennial herbaceous plants, of the genus Agrimonia, that have spikes of yellow flowers.
   • 1620, Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, The World Tossed at Tennis‎, London:

     I grant, my Pils are bitter, I, and costly; / But their effects are rare, Diuine, and holsome, […] / I grant, theres bitter Egrimony in vm, / And Antimony, I put mony in all still: / And it works preciously […]

   • 1897, H. G. Wells, chapter 9, in The Invisible Man‎, New York: Pocket Books, published 1957, page 41:

     So he put the four shoes in a graceful group on the turf and looked at them. And seeing them there among the grass and springing agrimony, it suddenly occurred to him that both pairs were exceedingly ugly to see.

   • 1999, Robert Lacey, Danny Danziger, The Year 1000: What life was like at the turn of The First Millennium, London: Abacus, published 2000, page 126:

     Right in the middle of the remedies, along with other ministrations to the groin area, was listed the Viagra of the year 1000 - the yellow-flowered herb agrimony.

2. Any of several not closely related plants of a similar appearance.

下位語

• hemp-agrimony (Eupatorium cannabinum)

派生語

• bastard agrimony

アナグラム

• myriagon