英语词汇cattleya的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

cattleya. This most popular of florist’s orchids has nothing to do with cattle, having been named for William Cattley (d. 1832), English amateur botanist and botany patron. The Cat- tleya genus includes some 40 species, though over 300 hybrid- ized forms are known. Cattleya labiata, with its 200 or so named varieties, is the most commonly cultivated orchid in America—the showy magenta-purple-lipped, yellow-throated “florist’s orchid”—although the enormous orchid family con- tains perhaps 500 genera and 15,000 species. The Cattleyea fly and the Cattley guava, a subtropical fruit, also commemorate the English plant lover.

词汇	cattleya
词源	cattleya. This most popular of florist’s orchids has nothing to do with cattle, having been named for William Cattley (d. 1832), English amateur botanist and botany patron. The Cat- tleya genus includes some 40 species, though over 300 hybrid- ized forms are known. Cattleya labiata, with its 200 or so named varieties, is the most commonly cultivated orchid in America—the showy magenta-purple-lipped, yellow-throated “florist’s orchid”—although the enormous orchid family con- tains perhaps 500 genera and 15,000 species. The Cattleyea fly and the Cattley guava, a subtropical fruit, also commemorate the English plant lover.
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