释义 |
Examples:plant mentioned in Book of Songs, uncertainly identified as carambola or star fruit (Averrhoa carambola)—name of weed plant (fat hen, goosefoot, pigweed etc)—distinctively female hemp plant (Cannabis sativa)—lit. pull up a plant and the roots follow (idiom); fig. also involving others—Lawpita Falls on the Balu Chaung river, location of Myanmar's biggest hydroelectric plant—Rabdosia lophanthoides (no common name), herb plant of Lamiaceae family (together with mint and lavender), used in TCM—Wrightia tinctoria (flowering plant in Apocynaceae family, common names dyer's oleander or pala indigo)—Amomom (fructus Amomi), plant used in Chinese medicine—monocotyledon (plant family distinguished by single embryonic leaf, includes grasses, orchids and lilies)—Umbelliferae or Apiaceae, plant family containing carrot, coriander etc—dicotyledon (plant family distinguished by two embryonic leaves, includes daisies, broadleaved trees, herbaceous plants)—Epimedium, genus of herbaceous flowering plant, cultivated in the Far East as aphrodisiac—sensitive plant (that closes its leaves when touched)—lit. you plant a garden and the flowers do not bloom, you poke a stick in the mud and it grows ina tree—Catalpa bungei or Manchurian Catalpa, a tea plant—Lithospermum erythrorhizon (flowering plant whose root provides red purple dye)—hop (Humulus lupulus), climbing plant whose flower cones are used in brewing beer—coltsfoot (Tussilago farfara), plant in sunflower family Asteracae used a cough suppressant—Mycosphaerella (genus of sac fungus, a plant pathogen)— |