| 单词 | false acacia |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfalse acacia b. Any of various other leguminous trees (esp. ones of the North American genus Robinia) which resemble the true acacias in some way; esp. (more fully false acacia) = black locust n. at black adj. and n. Compounds 1e(d). Frequently with distinguishing word. Cf. robinia n.mock, rose, three-thorned acacia: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > North American trees or shrubs > [noun] > locust-tree locustc1612 acacia1640 locust tree1640 robinia1752 mock-acacia1754 rose acacia1762 pseudo-acacia1775 1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum ci. 1550 Pseudoacacia Americana Robini. Robinus his false Acacia of America. 1664 J. Evelyn Sylva xxv. 64 The French have lately brought in the Virginian Acacia, which exceedingly adorns their Walks. c1728 M. Catesby Nat. Hist. Carolina I. 43 Acacia. This tree I never saw but at the plantation of Mr. Waring on Ashley River, growing in shallow water. 1755 J. Bartram Let. 6 Mar. in Corr. (1992) 379 I thought ye 3 thorned acatia had been A native of virginia. 1793 M. J. Randolph Let. 16 May in T. Jefferson Papers (1995) XXVI. 53 Your chess nuts are all alive but one and the acasia's all dead but one. 1816 P. B. Shelley Alastor 30 The ash and the acacia floating hang Tremulous and pale. 1850 S. F. Cooper Rural Hours 413 The pods of the Acacia, frequently called the Honey-locust, are handsome and very large. 1855 Ld. Tennyson Maud xxi. viii, in Maud & Other Poems 70 The slender acacia would not shake One long milk-bloom on the tree. 1895 Agric. Gaz. N. S .W. 6 671 African Acacia (Cassia laevigata)..isn't African, and isn't an Acacia... It is sometimes known as ‘Laburnum.’ 1922 E. von Arnim Enchanted April (1989) 361 There were the lilies, as vigorous as ever,..and the syringa and the jessamine, and at last the crowning fragrance of the acacias. 1959 Times 31 Jan. 9/4 The false acacia Robinia pseudacacia, the birch,..and the poplar, all support the exacting conditions that can be found in any town throughout Britain. 1967 V. Nabokov Speak, Memory (1969) ii. 34 A pea-tree hedge (the ‘yellow acacia’ of northern Russia)..ran parallel to the enclosure. 2002 W. Glover Deep France i. 25 The acacia flowers grow in bunches like grapes and have a sweet vanilla aroma. < as lemmas |
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