comfrey

/kuhm-free/US // ˈkʌm fri //UK // (ˈkʌmfrɪ) //

紫草,紫荆花,紫草属植物,紫藤

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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plural com·freys.
- : any coarse Eurasian plant belonging to the genus Symphytum, of the borage family, as the widely cultivated S. officinale, having hairy, lance-shaped leaves and drooping clusters of small, white, rose-colored, or purplish flowers.

Lavallée in his note (p. 94) translates this consoude, which in English is comfrey, Latin Symphytum.
Where undisturbed the comfrey grows to a great size, the stems becoming very thick.
Yellow loosestrife is rising, thick comfrey stands at the very edge; the sandpipers run where the shore is free from bushes.
Mr. Comfrey made a deprecatory gesture, and Fred said, rather roughly: "What do I care about all that?"
Mrs. Comfrey seemed hardly to consider herself, and certainly Miss Baldwin didn't consider her, on an equality with Mrs. Eldridge.