英语词汇belladonna lily的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	belladonna lily
词源	belladonna lily. Belladonna means “pretty lady” in Italian and this flower may be so named because its smooth petals re- semble a pretty girl’s skin, or because Italian women once used the red sap of the plant as a cosmetic or to brighten their eyes. A beautiful shepherdess in the poems of Virgil and Theocritus gives the belladonna lily its scientific name Amaryllis.
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