释义 |
‖ sunt|sʌnt| Also sont. [Arab. sanṭ.] A species of acacia, Acacia nilotica, of northern Africa, or its wood. Also attrib.
1820Belzoni Egypt & Nubia iii. 304 We were seated under a dry sunt tree, at a little distance from a small well. 1883Conder & Kitchener Survey W. Palestine III. 139 A man who lit a single branch of sunt (acacia), cooked his food for three successive days by it. 1884J. Colborne Hicks Pasha 100 Sunt trees grow in great profusion here. 1901Knowledge June 138/2 The timber forming a raft is generally of the ‘sont’ tree. |