woadwaxenとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• woad waxen

語源

From 古期英語 wuduweaxe.

名詞

woad-waxen (plural woad-waxens)

1. The leguminous plant Genista tinctoria, native to Europe.
   • 1898, Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board of Agriculture, Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture, Volume 45, Part 1897, page 273:

     The woad waxen (Genista tinctoria), common enough near Salem, is seldom found inland, and the same holds good for the barberry and privet, which grow so abundantly near the coast and which have probably been introduced for two hundred years.

   • 1941, Eva Roe Gaggin, Down Ryton Water, published 1998, page 24:

     […] but after a time he left the sages, and leaped above the mayweeds, the felt-wyrts, the savouries, and the woad-waxens.

   • 1981, S. N. F. Sanford, Country Herbs, page 20:

     Woad-waxen, which in modern English is wax-weed, was one of the plants of many virtues brought by the earliest Pilgrims, […] .

同意語

• (Genista tinctoria): greenweed, greenwood, whin, wood-wash, woodwax, woodwaxen