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单词 forsythia
释义 forsythia|fɔːˈsaɪθɪə|
[mod.L. (M. Vahl Enumeratio Plantarum (1805) I. 39), f. the name of William Forsyth (1737–1804), English botanist: see -ia1.]
A plant of the genus of spring-flowering shrubs so named, native to Albania and eastern Asia and belonging to the family Oleaceæ; cultivated for their bright yellow, bell-shaped flowers.
1846Jrnl. R. Hort. Soc. I. 227 The species obtained by Mr. Fortune is very distinct from the original Forsythia.1851Curtis's Bot. Mag. LXXVII. 4587 The original Forsythia, established on a Chinese plant cultivated in Japan..appears to have been introduced into Holland in 1833.1893[see golden bell].1905Daily Chron. 2 Aug. 3/1 Daffodils in the grass under drooping Forsythia.1927E. H. M. Cox Evol. Garden xiii. 250 The Forsythias with bright yellow flowers.1965S. C. Emberton Shrub Gardening ix. 52 The gardens along the line bubble over with sugar-pink almond blossom and irrepressible yellow forsythias.
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