词汇 | lady-s-smock |
词源 | lady’s-smock. One of Shakespeare’s favorite flowers, its Latin name (Pratensis) meaning “growing in meadows.” Wrote the Bard: Daisies pied, and violets blue, And Lady-smocks, all silver white, and Cuckoo birds of yellow hue do paint the meadows with delight. |
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