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snapdragon
英 ['snæpdræg(ə)n]美 ['snæpdræɡən]
n. [植] 金魚草
中文詞源
snapdragon 金魚草，齧龍花
snap,咬，dragon,龍。比喻用法，因這種花形如傳說中的龍咬合的嘴而得名。
英語詞源
snapdragon
snapdragon: [16] The herbalist John Gerard (no feminist, evidently) gave the reason why antirrhinums were called snapdragons: ‘The flowers [are] fashioned like a dragon’s mouth; from whence the women have taken the name Snapdragon’, Herbal 1597. The term was also used from the early 18th century for a party game which involved picking raisins out of a bowl of burning brandy and eating them while they were still alight – the allusion being of course to the dragon’s firebreathing habits.
snapdragon (n.)
garden plant, 1570s, from snap (n.) + dragon. So called from fancied resemblance of antirrhinum flowers to a dragon's mouth. As the name of a Christmas game of plucking raisins from burning brandy and eating them alight, from 1704.
權威例句
1. The corolla of a snapdragon is bilabiate.
金魚草的花冠是二脣形的.
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