英:['melɪlɒt]
美:['meləˌlɒt]
英:['melɪlɒt]
美:['meləˌlɒt]
Middle English mellilot, from Old French melilot, from Latin melilotos, from Greek melilōtos, from meli honey + lōtos clover, lotus — more at mellifluous
The first known use of melilot was in the 14th century
1 Fenugreek, fen′ū-grēk, n. a genus of leguminous plants, allied to clover and melilot.
2 The blossoms of lilacs, May lilies, daphnes, and melilots mingled their various hues in the thickets.
3 In two or three species of tough Hydnum, there is a strong persistent odour somewhat like melilot or woodruffe, which does not pass away after the specimen has been dried for years.
4 The whole plant smells of melilot; even after it has been dried and kept for years it does not lose this scent.
5 She learned that Osiris had, through mistake, had connection with her sister Nephte, which she discovered by a crown of leaves of the melilot, which he had left behind him.
6 Continental physicians still employ the same made of melilot, wax, resin, and olive oil.
7 Bushes of tall, white melilot, clustered with myriads of tiny flowers, exhale a sweet fragrance into the morning air.
8 It's a hay cheese, flavored heavily with melilot, a kind of clover that's also grown for hay.
9 Great purple snapdragons hung from clefts in the rocks, inula flashed gorgeously yellow, white melilot raised its graceful drooping blossoms, and hemp-agrimony made the bees sing a drowsy song of the brimming cup of summer.
10 In the process of making this cheese, melilot, a clover-like herb, is added, and this gives the cheese a green color and a peculiar flavor.
11 We have only to stretch out our hands as we lie to gather half a dozen spikes of lavender, wild thyme, rosemary, Deptford pink, melilot, blue pimpernel, and white scabious.
12 Among the flowers chiefly used for garlands and chaplets in ceremonial rites we find the rose, violet, anemone, thyme, melilot, hyacinth, crocus, yellow lily, and yellow flowers generally.
13 Agrimony, mint, and marjoram, with a tall inula, and the pretty, sweet-scented white melilot, were in great abundance along the bank.
14 Within what weeks the melilot Gave forth its fragrance, I, a lad, Or never knew or quite forgot, Save that 'twas while the year is glad.
15 I think my heart broke; but I have forgot All but the smell of the white melilot.
1 草木犀属植物
2 豆科
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