A small creeping Eurasian plant with yellow and purple flowers, widely occurring in cornfields.
蟹状草
Genus Kickxia, family Scrophulariaceae: two species
Example sentencesExamples
Rare fluellen is allowed to flourish in the vegetable garden because it needs arable land and is losing its natural habitat.
With their whimsical ancient names such as corncockle, mousetail, fluellen, fumitory, downy hemp-nettle and lamb's succory, they have music as well as colour.
The wonderfully named Venus's looking-glass, shepherd's needle, devil's curry-comb and round-leaved fluellen, have mostly been driven out.
Origin
Mid 16th century: alteration of Welsh llysiau Llywelyn 'Llewelyn's herbs'; compare with Fluellen, used by Shakespeare to represent the Welsh name Llywelyn.