英语词汇shoofly plant的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	shoofly plant
词源	shoofly plant. There is only one garden species of the Ni- candra genus, named after Nicander of Colophon, a Greek physician, poet, and botanist of the second century a.d. And this annual species, Nicandra physalodes, seems to have but one distinction: It is a repellent to the white fly if grown next to oth- er plants troubled by this pest. It is also called apple-of-Peru, because it is plentiful in that country.
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