英语词汇lasthenia的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Lasthenia. Among the students who attended the philoso- pher Plato’s lectures at the Academy in Athens was a woman named Lasthenia, who stole in by disguising herself as a man. Little more is known of her, but centuries later her story in- spired the naturalist Cassini to name the plant genus Lasthenia, for Plato’s woman pupil. The small genus contains but three species, two native to California and the other to Chile. All are tender annual herbs, and their showy flowers are yellow on long, often nodding, peduncles.

词汇	lasthenia
词源	Lasthenia. Among the students who attended the philoso- pher Plato’s lectures at the Academy in Athens was a woman named Lasthenia, who stole in by disguising herself as a man. Little more is known of her, but centuries later her story in- spired the naturalist Cassini to name the plant genus Lasthenia, for Plato’s woman pupil. The small genus contains but three species, two native to California and the other to Chile. All are tender annual herbs, and their showy flowers are yellow on long, often nodding, peduncles.
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