celandineとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈsɛləndaɪn/

名詞

celandine (countable and uncountable, plural celandines)

1. Any plant of the genus Chelidonium.
2. Either of two not closely related flowering plants:
   • 1595, Thomas Johnson, Cornucopiæ‎, London: William Barley:

     So men haue learned many precious remedies for many diseases euen by brute [beasts], as we see by the swallow, who hath taught vs that the ioice of Celandine is singuler for the eies, for that she restoreth sight to her yong ones with Celandine.

   • 1786, “From The Miners of Pherecrates”, in Richard Cumberland, transl., The Observer‎, volume 3, number 78, page 175:

     If your mouth waters now, what had it done, / Cou’d you have seen our delicate fine thrushes / Hot from the spit, with myrtle-berries cramm’d, / And larded well with celandine and parsley, / Bob at your hungry lips, crying—Come eat me!

   • 1807, William Wordsworth, “To the Small Celandine”, in Poems‎, volume 1, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, page 25:

     Buttercups, that will be seen,
     Whether we will see or no;
     Others, too, of lofty mien;
     They have done as worldlings do,
     Taken praise that should be thine,
     Little, humble Celandine!

   • 1950, C. S. Lewis, chapter 11, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Collins, published 1998:

     Coming suddenly round a corner into a glade of silver birch trees Edmund saw the ground covered in all directions with little yellow flowers—celandines.

   • 2000, Bill Oddie, Gripping Yarns, page 26:

     The poor but lovely bird sat there, posing among the celandines and wood anemones, wondering why its wing-tips were frozen together.

   1. Greater celandine (Chelidonium majus).
   2. Lesser celandine (Ficaria verna, formerly Ranunculus ficaria).

      Synonym: pilewort

派生語

• celandine poppy (Stylophorum diphyllum)

Further reading

• James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Celandine”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume II (C), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, pages 209–210.

アナグラム

• danceline, decennial, line dance, line-dance