词汇 | ragged robin |
词源 | ragged robin. This is the colorful name for Lychnis flos- cuculi, also called the cuckooflower. Tennyson compares the flower to a pretty maid in ragged clothes in Idylls of the King. The genus name Lychnis comes from the Greek lychnos, “a lamp,” in reference to the glowing flowers. |
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