| 单词 | american aloe |
| 释义 | > as lemmasAmerican aloe 5. Frequently with distinguishing word. Any of various other plants supposed to resemble those of the genus Aloe; esp. (more fully American aloe) a tropical American agave, Agave americana, with long spiny leaves. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Amaryllidaceae > [noun] > types of maguey1555 melt1605 pancratium1664 aloe1665 pita1698 mescal1709 maypole1750 agave1760 poison bulb1776 kukumakranka1793 furcraea1821 zephyranthes1821 century plant1827 mescal button1887 tequila plant1979 1665 C. Merrett Acct. Freezing 39 in R. Boyle New Exper. & Observ. Cold Our great Houseleek or American Aloes (usually hung up in houses) kept in an upper room, was totally destroy'd by the cold. 1682 G. Wheler Journey into Greece i. 27 Here I saw Aloes in flower. 1752 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. (ed. 6) H 2 A vulgar Error..relating to the large American Aloe; which is, that it never flowers till it is an hundred Years old. 1843 W. H. Prescott Hist. Conquest Mexico I. i. i. 8 Plantations of the aloe or maguey (Agave americana). 1866 in J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. 29 The American Aloe appears to have been first introduced to Europe in 1561. 1903 Flora & Sylva Sept. 210 There are, indeed, few that have seen the great American Agave (so persistently mis-called Aloe) in full beauty. 1908 R. J. Farrer Alpines & Bog-plants xiii. 271 Rare in the marshes of East Anglia is the water-Aloe, Stratiotes aloeides, exactly like a thorny, submerged aloe, with spikes of whitish flowers. a1933 J. Galsworthy End of Chapter (1934) iii. xiv. 694 It was very sweet of you, but the aloe only blooms once in a hundred years. 2003 Herald Express (Torquay) (Nexis) 13 Sept. 24 The fully grown American aloe (agave) specimen has suddenly burst in to bloom. < as lemmas |
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