51吃瓜 of the Day
ocellated
adjective
having eyelike spots or markings.
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The English adjective ocellated is a derivative of the Latin noun ocellus 鈥�(little) eye,鈥� a diminutive of oculus 鈥渆ye.鈥� Ocellus is used especially in affectionate language, equivalent to 鈥渁pple of my eye鈥� or 鈥渄arling.鈥� As a horticultural term, ocellus means 鈥渋ncision made in the bark for inserting a bud or scion.鈥� The only modern sense of ocellus does not occur in Latin; it is a zoological term meaning 鈥渟imple eye or light-sensitive organ; a colored spot on birds鈥� feathers or butterflies鈥� and dates from the 18th century.
how is ocellated used?
… M茅line’s nose and eyes are such that you would swear you were looking at an ocellated butterfly, perching on a rosebud.
Fantasia was quick to push close the door behind them, although when doing so momentarily trapped the end of the cockbird’s ocellated or ‘eyed’ tail-feathers which, as a consequence, gave the signal for pandemonium to break loose.
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The English adjective sabulous is a clear-cut borrowing from Latin 蝉补产耻濒艒蝉耻蝉 鈥漡ravelly, sandy,鈥� a derivative of sabulum 鈥渃oarse sand, gravel.鈥� Sabulum comes from an assumed Italic psaflom. (Italic is the branch of the Indo-European language family that includes Latin, Oscan, Umbrian, and the modern Romance languages.) Psaflom comes from the same Proto-Indo-European root bhes- 鈥渢o rub鈥� as Greek 辫蝉锚辫丑辞蝉 鈥減ebble鈥� and Germanic sandam (Old English and English sand, German Sand). Sabulous entered English in the 17h century.
how is sabulous used?
But clearly the beach is also a stage, a studio, indeed an arena, sabulous or otherwise, at the heart of the culture.
The plants rose from the stones like a conjurer’s trick, working roots down into hidden pockets of sabulous soil …
cinquefoil
noun
any of several plants belonging to the genus Potentilla, of the rose family, having yellow, red, or white five-petaled flowers, as P. reptans (creeping cinquefoil) of the Old World, or P. argentea (silvery cinquefoil) of North America.
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The English noun cinquefoil comes from Middle French cincfoille 鈥渇ive leaves.鈥� Cincfoille corresponds to Latin qu墨nque folia, a translation of Greek 辫别苍迟谩辫丑测濒濒辞苍, literally 鈥渇ive leaves,鈥� and the name of the creeping cinquefoil (Potentilla reptans) or the silvery cinquefoil (P. argentea). Cinquefoil entered English in the 15th century.
how is cinquefoil used?
Cinquefoil, with small yellow blossom, and ranunculus, with glossy yellow cup, edged the sunny roads …
This was my curious labor all summer,–to make this portion of the earth’s surface, which had yielded only cinquefoil, blackberries, johnswort, and the like, before, sweet wild fruits and pleasant flowers, produce instead this pulse.