| 词汇 | mimulus |
| 词源 | mimulus. These showy flowers were once thought to resem- ble a monkey’s face and were thus named from the Greek mimo, “face.” Other names for them are monkey flower and the cardi- nal monkey flower. One species, Mimulus moschatus, is called monkey musk, but actually has no smell at all. Experts are at a loss to explain why the flower mysteriously lost its perfume at the end of the 19th century. |
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