| 单词 | cypress-knee |
| 释义 | > as lemmascypress-knee cypress-knee n. a large woody tumour occurring on the roots of Taxodium ( Treasury Bot.). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > conifers > cypresses > [noun] > cypress cone or cypress-knee cypress-apple1712 cypress-knee1784 1784 J. F. D. Smyth Tour U.S.A. II. 235 Cypress knees, closely intermixed with a matted body of strong fibrous roots. 1791 W. Bartram Trav. N. & S. Carolina 91 From these roots grow woody cones, called cypress knees, four, five, and six feet high. 1817 S. R. Brown Western Gazetteer 145 A number of conical excrescences rising from its base to the height of eight or ten feet, called cypress knees. 1836 Southern Lit. Messenger 2 288 His tail..mounted suddenly upwards like a cypress knee. 1875 E. King Southern States N. Amer. 383 The gleaming water out of which rise thousands of ‘cypress-knees’. 1889 Science 13 176/2 Processes..sufficiently developed to be classed in importance with the cypress knees. < as lemmas |
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