| 释义 |
jam-tree Austral.
Also jamwood.
= raspberry jam tree (s.v. raspberry 6).
1934T. Wood Cobbers vii. 91 Jam trees grow here [sc. in Western Australia], and blackboy, that strange fascination. 1941Coast to Coast 46 The wheat..rippled up the hillside and lost itself..in the shadow of a jam⁓tree belt. 1947Coast to Coast 1946 202 Old Tom Caseley had just finished whittling the fifty-seventh link in his jamwood chain when he died. 1962A. Upfield Will of Tribe iv. 39 He..dismounted and neck-roped the horse to a stout desert jamwood. 1965Austral. Encycl. IX. 219/2 Myall wood has a peculiar violet-like fragrance, while jamwood is reminiscent of raspberries. |