英语词汇pretty-by-night的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

pretty-by-night. One Victorian horticulturist said that pret- ty-by-night and other flower names beginning with pretty were “used only by the vulgar,” but folks knew better, and all are still in use, although sometimes little known. Pretty-by-night is an alias of the common “four-o-clock,” also known as marvel-of- Peru, which lives up to its name when its handsome tubelike flowers open very late in the afternoon. The botanist who first classified the species thought it wonderful, too, for he chris- tened it Mirabilis jalapa. It signifies “timidity” in the language of flowers. Pretty Face is a showy salmon or salmon-yellow flower streaked with dark purple that is common in southern California. A lily with slender grasslike leaves, it is known bo- tanically as Brodiaea ixiodes, the group named for Scottish bot- anist James Brodie.

词汇	pretty-by-night
词源	pretty-by-night. One Victorian horticulturist said that pret- ty-by-night and other flower names beginning with pretty were “used only by the vulgar,” but folks knew better, and all are still in use, although sometimes little known. Pretty-by-night is an alias of the common “four-o-clock,” also known as marvel-of- Peru, which lives up to its name when its handsome tubelike flowers open very late in the afternoon. The botanist who first classified the species thought it wonderful, too, for he chris- tened it Mirabilis jalapa. It signifies “timidity” in the language of flowers. Pretty Face is a showy salmon or salmon-yellow flower streaked with dark purple that is common in southern California. A lily with slender grasslike leaves, it is known bo- tanically as Brodiaea ixiodes, the group named for Scottish bot- anist James Brodie.
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