| 释义 |
saman2|sæˈmɑːn|
Also samaan, samang.
[a. Amer. Sp. samán, f. Carib zamang.]
= guango, zamang. Also attrib.
1888, etc. [see monkey-pod (tree) s.v. monkey n. 18 b]. 1951J. C. Fennessy Sonnet in Bottle ii. iii. 46 The huge tents of the saman trees were islands of blackness in the cooling streams of night air. 1958G. Lamming Of Age & Innocence ii. vii. 117 The tall black samaan tree at the curve of the hill-top. 1960Times 10 Mar. 18/3 The saman trees..were full of holders of tree tickets. 1963[see guango]. 1968E. Lovelace Schoolmaster viii. 120 Christiana was sitting on the trunk of a fallen samaan tree in the shade near the cocoa house. 1974Times 5 Feb. 12/4 Queen's Park Oval is unlike its namesake at Kennington. Where the gasholders should be there are some fine samaan trees, with a range of low, wooded hills right behind them. |