a thistle-like European plant with flower heads that bear shiny persistent straw-coloured bracts 刺苞菊
Genus Carlina, family Compositae: several species, in particular C. vulgaris 刺苞菊属,菊科: 数种,尤指欧洲刺苞菊
语源
late 16th cent.: from French, from medieval Latin carlina, perhaps an alteration of cardina (from Latin carduus 'thistle'), by association with Carolus Magnus (see Charlemagne), to whom its medicinal properties were said to have been revealed
carline2 [ˈkɑːlɪn] (亦作 carlin 或 carling) noun
(一般作 carlines)any of the pieces of squared timber fitted fore and aft between the deck beams of a wooden ship to support the deck planking 短纵梁
语源
Middle English (in the sense '(old) woman, witch'): from Old Norse karling; the reason for nautical use of the word remains obscure