| 释义 |
bottle-tree|ˈbɒt(ə)ltriː|
[f. bottle n.2 + tree n.]
An Australian tree of the sterculia family, either the Queensland tree Sterculia rupestris or the similar Sterculia diversifolia of Victoria, so called from the bottle-like shape of its trunk.
1846C. P. Hodgson Remin. Australia 264 The sterculia or bottle-tree is a very singular curiosity. It generally varies in shape between a soda water and port wine bottle. 1885Mrs. C. Praed Head Stat. 179 In dense scrub, where the bottle-trees rose weird and white. 1889J. H. Maiden Useful Native Plants 60 A ‘Kurrajong’. The ‘Bottle-tree’ of N.E. Australia, and also called ‘Gouty-stem’. 1891‘Coo-ee’ 284 A great white bottle tree, its trunk perfectly bare. 1931F. D. Davison Man-Shy (1934) vii. 107 Through open bottle-tree country. 1958R. Stow To Islands 52 Not far from the aerodrome strip there, under the bottle tree. |