snapdragon

英 ['snæpdræg(ə)n] 美 ['snæpdræɡən]
  • n. [植] 金鱼草

中文词源


snapdragon 金鱼草,啮龙花

snap,咬,dragon,龙。比喻用法,因这种花形如传说中的龙咬合的嘴而得名。

英文词源


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.

双语例句


1. The corolla of a snapdragon is bilabiate.
金鱼草的花冠是二唇形的.

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