单词 | dasylirion |
释义 | dasylirionn. A plant of the liliaceous genus of this name, indigenous to Mexico and the south-western U.S., having white bell-shaped flowers, cultivated as a greenhouse evergreen plant. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > cultivated or ornamental trees and shrubs > [noun] > yuccas yucca1664 Adam's Needle1730 bear grass1750 Spanish Bayonet1823 yucca-tree1828 Spanish dagger1859 dagger-plant1866 dasylirion1880 sotol1881 soap-weed1884 1858 Curtis's Bot. Mag. 84 tab. 5030 (heading) Bearded-leaved Dasylirium. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 385/1 Dasylirion, a genus of Bromeliaceæ, consisting of Mexican plants with short stems, and densely crowded linear leaves which droop gracefully.] 1880 Encycl. Brit. XII. 262/1 The Dasylirions have stout woody stems and large heads of narrow leaves. 1933 Punch 11 Jan. 45/1 I simply yearn to look a dasylirion in the eye. 1951 Dict. Gardening (Royal Hort. Soc.) II. 640/1 Dasylirions are excellent plants for subtropical bedding, their gracefully drooping leaves being ornamental at all times. 1963 W. Blunt Of Flowers & Village 29 The dasylirion has leaves as sharp as saws. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1880 |
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