英语词汇magnolia的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

magnolia. Like Matthias de L’Obel, for whom Linnaeus named the Lobelia, Pierre Magnol (1638–1715) was a French physician and botanist who published a book classifying plants. Professor of botany at Montpelier University, Magnol had somehow obtained an education despite the fact that he had been denied entrance to French colleges because he was a Prot- estant. Through his courses in botany his name became cele- brated, and Linnaeus honored him further by applying it to the beautiful magnolia tree upon devising his own monumental system of classification. The magnolia had been introduced into Europe from Japan in about 1709, but wasn’t named for the professor until after his death. Linnaeus owed much to Magnol, who originated the system of family classification of plants, and picked a large plant family to honor him—Magno- liaceae, including 10 genera and over 100 species. The magnolia family, native to Southeast Asia and the southeastern United States, contains some of the most beautiful garden shrubs and trees. Its lemon-scented fragrance was once used by the Chi- nese to season rice. The tree’s huge, showy flowers, sometimes 10 inches across, are commonly white, yellow, rose, or purple, appearing with or before the first leaves of spring, and the mag- nolia grows to heights of up to 100 feet. Leaves of one species, the southern umbrella tree, are often two feet long, and the at- tractive leaves of Magnolia grandiflora are used to fashion fu- neral wreaths.

词汇	magnolia
词源	magnolia. Like Matthias de L’Obel, for whom Linnaeus named the Lobelia, Pierre Magnol (1638–1715) was a French physician and botanist who published a book classifying plants. Professor of botany at Montpelier University, Magnol had somehow obtained an education despite the fact that he had been denied entrance to French colleges because he was a Prot- estant. Through his courses in botany his name became cele- brated, and Linnaeus honored him further by applying it to the beautiful magnolia tree upon devising his own monumental system of classification. The magnolia had been introduced into Europe from Japan in about 1709, but wasn’t named for the professor until after his death. Linnaeus owed much to Magnol, who originated the system of family classification of plants, and picked a large plant family to honor him—Magno- liaceae, including 10 genera and over 100 species. The magnolia family, native to Southeast Asia and the southeastern United States, contains some of the most beautiful garden shrubs and trees. Its lemon-scented fragrance was once used by the Chi- nese to season rice. The tree’s huge, showy flowers, sometimes 10 inches across, are commonly white, yellow, rose, or purple, appearing with or before the first leaves of spring, and the mag- nolia grows to heights of up to 100 feet. Leaves of one species, the southern umbrella tree, are often two feet long, and the at- tractive leaves of Magnolia grandiflora are used to fashion fu- neral wreaths.
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