| 单词 | christmas bush |
| 释义 | > as lemmasChristmas bush Christmas bush n. (a) a rapidly growing tropical American shrub, Chromolaena odorata (family Asteraceae), having aromatic foliage and panicles of white tubular flowers (also called Jack-in-the-bush); (b) any of various unrelated shrubs native to Australia and New Zealand typically used for decoration at Christmas; esp. Ceratopetalum gummiferum (family Cunoniaceae), which has small white flowers with enlarged reddish-pink sepals; (c) a leguminous shrub native to South America and the West Indies, Senna bicapsularis, having golden-yellow flowers (also called money bush). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > cultivated or ornamental trees and shrubs > [noun] > hedge plants Christmas bush1750 caragana1866 macrocarpa1866 Monterey cypress1868 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > cultivated or ornamental trees and shrubs > [noun] > other ornamental trees or shrubs ambrosieOE minced pie1739 Christmas bush1750 black-gum1785 Nandina1787 allamanda1789 restio1796 moutan1808 tree peony1811 snowberry1815 aucuba1819 zamang1819 Deutzia1837 ground-jasmine1848 nandin1866 heavenly bamboo1871 spathodea1873 Escallonia1882 nanten1884 o-matsu1916 Japanese pagoda tree1924 dove tree1933 1750 G. Hughes Nat. Hist. Barbados viii. 205 (heading) The Christmas-Bush. This Plant grows to about three Feet high. Its Roots are many, but weak, always blooming in December. 1817 A. Cunningham in I. Marriott Early Explorers Austral. 8 Mar. (1925) 171 Gathered seeds of Ceratopetalum gummiferum (Christmas Bush). 1883 O. A. Reade Plants Bermudas 23 C[assia] bicapsularis (Christmas bush). 1911 Psyche 18 82 ‘Christmas bush’..attracts lots of insects of all orders and is very common near roads all over the island... In the second letter Prof. Urich informed me that the ‘Christmas bush’ is the composite Eupatorium odoratum. 1949 J. E. C. McFarlane Treasury Jamaican Poetry ii. 72 And the Christmas-bush a-swinging, Its dainty bells a-ringing. 2018 Gold Coast (Austral.) Eye (Nexis) 22 Dec. (Lifestyle section) 17 Known as a butterfly attracting plant, and for its value in floristry, South Australia's Christmas bush is white flowering Bursaria spinosa. < as lemmas |
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