ragwortとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈɹæɡwəːt/

名詞

ragwort (countable and uncountable, plural ragworts)

1. Any of a number of wild flowering plants with yellow flowers in the family Asteraceae, mostly belonging to Senecio and related genera.
   • 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio Society, published 2007, page 237:

     Ragwort is under the command of dame Venus, and cleanses, digests and discusses.

   • 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 157:

     Sea-poppies and ragwort were plants of ill-fame, too.

   • 1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 267:

     As we all know, witches ride through the air on a broom, but sometimes their means of locomotion was a bulrush, a branch of thorn, mullein stalks, cornstalk, or ragweed, called fairies' horse in Ireland.

派生語

Further reading

• Ragwort (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “ragwort”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.