| 单词 | angsana wood |
| 释义 | > as lemmasangsana wood The narra tree, Pterocarpus indicus, a tall leguminous tree native to South-East Asia which bears panicles of fragrant orange or yellow flowers and secretes a bright red resin previously used in medicine (more fully angsana tree). Also (more fully angsana wood): the reddish wood of this tree. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > non-British timber trees > [noun] > tropical > pterocarpus timber trees angsana1749 Pterocarpus1770 lingoa1798 kyabuka1831 padauk1839 narra1890 1749 J. Barrow Dict. Medicum Universale Angsana, the name of a tree that grows in the East-Indies; the part used in medicine is the liquor that distils from the wounded tree, and condenses into a red tear. 1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. IV. 890/2 Furniture woods grown in Pinang or Prince of Wales Island..—Siam Wood. Ebony..Senna Baymah or Angsena..Ibool wood. 1910 Agric. Bull. Straits & Federated Malay States 9 133 Between 30 and 40 years ago there grew along the sea front in Malacca a magnificent avenue of Angsana trees (Pterocarpus indicus), and..they were attacked by some disease which killed practically the whole of them. 1994 Straits Times (Singapore) (Nexis) 21 Aug. Singapore's Garden City campaign, which became a national policy in 1967, saw the planting of Angsanas island-wide. 2015 M. Isa & M. Kaur Kuala Lumpur Street Names (e-book ed.) at Angsana Angsana wood is termite-resistant, making it a prized timber for construction and furniture-making. < as lemmas |
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