| 单词 | grease-wood |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgrease-wood grease-wood n. a name for various stunted and prickly chenopodiaceous shrubs, of the genera Sarcobatus, Atriplex, etc., which contain oil and are found in dry alkaline valleys of the western U.S. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plants yielding fuel or manure > [noun] > plants yielding firewood lightwood1693 lignum rhodium1693 candle-wood1712 rosewood1756 grease-wood1845 grease-bush1860 torch-tree1862 amyrisc1865 torchwood1866 candle-bush1890 1845 J. Palmer Jrnl. (1847) 48 Wild sage and greasewood found in plenty. 1883 W. H. Bishop in Harper's Mag. Mar. 502/2 The ‘grease-wood’ is a large bush which is said to burn just as well green as dry. 1928 W. Cather Death comes for Archbishop i. i. 18 The wagon train had been going all day through a greasewood plain. < as lemmas |
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