英语词汇comptonia的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

comptonia. Henry Compton, bishop of London, was a col- lector of rare and exotic plants. The prelate, an anti-papal leader during the Revolution of 1688, had many admirers in England, even after his death in 1713 at the age of 81. One of these was the great naturalist Sir Joseph Banks, who traveled to New- foundland and Labrador in 1766 to collect native plants and accompanied Captain Cook on his first voyage two years later for the same purpose. Banks expressed his admiration for the plant-loving divine by naming the comptonia bush (Comptonia peregrina) after him. The Comptonia is a single shrub, some- times called sweet bush or sweet fern. Native to eastern North America, it is highly aromatic, with fernlike leaves and green, rather inconspicuous flowers.

词汇	comptonia
词源	comptonia. Henry Compton, bishop of London, was a col- lector of rare and exotic plants. The prelate, an anti-papal leader during the Revolution of 1688, had many admirers in England, even after his death in 1713 at the age of 81. One of these was the great naturalist Sir Joseph Banks, who traveled to New- foundland and Labrador in 1766 to collect native plants and accompanied Captain Cook on his first voyage two years later for the same purpose. Banks expressed his admiration for the plant-loving divine by naming the comptonia bush (Comptonia peregrina) after him. The Comptonia is a single shrub, some- times called sweet bush or sweet fern. Native to eastern North America, it is highly aromatic, with fernlike leaves and green, rather inconspicuous flowers.
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