英语词汇wisteria的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

wisteria. A spelling error made by Thomas Nuttal, curator of Harvard’s Botanical Garden, led to the accepted misspelling of this beautiful flowering plant—wisteria being the common spelling today even though wistaria is correct. Nuttal, who named the plant after Dr. Caspar Wistar, had meant to write “wistaria,” but his slip of the pen was perpetuated by later writ- ers, and wisteria has become accepted. All attempts to remedy the situation have failed, even Joshua Logan’s play The Wistaria Trees, in which the author purposely spelled the word with an a. A Philadelphia Quaker, Caspar Wistar (1761–1818) taught “anatomy, mid-wifery, and surgery” at what was then the Col- lege of Pennsylvania. The son of a noted colonial glassmaker, Dr. Wistar wrote America’s first anatomy textbook, succeeded Jefferson as head of the American Philosophical Society, and his home became the Sunday afternoon meeting place of many notable Philadelphians. Anyone in the vicinity of Sierra Madre, California in the late springtime should see the giant Chinese wisteria near the Los Angeles State and County Arboretum. During its five-week blooming period this giant species be- comes a vast field filled with over one and a half million blos- soms, the largest flowering plant in the world. Planted in 1892 the fabulous vine covers almost an acre, has branches surpass- ing 500 feet in length, and weighs over 252 tons.

词汇	wisteria
词源	wisteria. A spelling error made by Thomas Nuttal, curator of Harvard’s Botanical Garden, led to the accepted misspelling of this beautiful flowering plant—wisteria being the common spelling today even though wistaria is correct. Nuttal, who named the plant after Dr. Caspar Wistar, had meant to write “wistaria,” but his slip of the pen was perpetuated by later writ- ers, and wisteria has become accepted. All attempts to remedy the situation have failed, even Joshua Logan’s play The Wistaria Trees, in which the author purposely spelled the word with an a. A Philadelphia Quaker, Caspar Wistar (1761–1818) taught “anatomy, mid-wifery, and surgery” at what was then the Col- lege of Pennsylvania. The son of a noted colonial glassmaker, Dr. Wistar wrote America’s first anatomy textbook, succeeded Jefferson as head of the American Philosophical Society, and his home became the Sunday afternoon meeting place of many notable Philadelphians. Anyone in the vicinity of Sierra Madre, California in the late springtime should see the giant Chinese wisteria near the Los Angeles State and County Arboretum. During its five-week blooming period this giant species be- comes a vast field filled with over one and a half million blos- soms, the largest flowering plant in the world. Planted in 1892 the fabulous vine covers almost an acre, has branches surpass- ing 500 feet in length, and weighs over 252 tons.
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