willow herbとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

willow herb (plural willow herbs)

1. Alternative form of willowherb

別の表記

• willow herb, willow-herb

語源

From willow +‎ herb.

名詞

willowherb (plural willowherbs)

1. Any of several flowering plants in the genus Epilobium of the family Onagraceae.
   • 1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, “The Piper at the Gates”, in The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 153:

     Never had they noticed the roses so vivid, the willow-herb so riotous, the meadow-sweet so odorous and pervading.

   • 1917, Edward Thomas, “Adlestrop”, in Poems, London: Selwyn & Blount, page 40:

     And willows, willow-herb, and grass, / And meadowsweet, and haycocks dry, / No whit less still and lonely fair / Than the high cloudlets in the sky.

   • 1950 July, “Traveller's Joy”, in Railway Magazine, page ii (advertisement):

     Their flowers range from the rather formal blossoming of outer London to the wilder flowering of the country, where willow-herb and broom, traveller's joy and campion, go rioting over the chalky banks of the Metropolitan Line.

派生語

• giant willowherb (Chamerion angustifolium)
• golden willowherb (Lythrum salicaria)
• great willowherb (Epilobium hirsutum)
• hairy willowherb (Epilobium hirsutum)
• marsh willowherb (Epilobium palustre)
• milk willowherb (Lythrum spp.; Decodon verticillatus)
• night willowherb (Oenothera biennis)
• rosebay willowherb (Chamerion angustifolium)
• spiked willowherb (Lythrum salicaria)
• swamp willowherb (Epilobium palustre)
• yellow willow herb (Lysimachia vulgaris)

参照

• willowherb on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Epilobium on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Epilobium on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons