单词 | green snake cactus |
释义 | > as lemmasgreen snake cactus 2. Any of several plants regarded as resembling a green snake; esp. any of various cacti belonging (or formerly belonging) to the genus Cereus, having snake-like stems (also green snake cactus). Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cactus and allies > [noun] > other cacti hedgehog thistle1597 Opuntia1601 mescal1709 Barbados gooseberry1756 night-flowering cereus1789 vygebosch1795 night-blooming cereus1799 rhipsalis1819 pigface1830 window plant1838 old man cactus1845 cholla1846 fish-hook cactus1846 spleenwort1846 epiphyllum1858 old man's head1858 rainbow cactus1860 green snake1864 torchwood1866 queen of the night1870 vingerpol1875 nipple cactus1876 niggerhead1877 rat's tail cactus1878 rat-tail cactus1878 Christmas cactus1880 barrel cactus1881 peyote1885 mistletoe cactus1889 schlumbergera1898 pincushion1940 opuntioid1944 1864 Gardener's Monthly Aug. 236/2 We look with expectant eyes to the place where we last saw our ‘green snake’. Behold! growing out from the stem a large flower of dazzling beauty appears. 1883 A. J. Adderley Fisheries Bahamas 17 One of the most remarkable of them [sc. air-plants] is the green-snake, which looks exactly like a long serpent made of coloured india-rubber. 1901 Bull. Amer. Geogr. Soc. 33 212 (table) Cereus triangularis. Green Snake... Cereus flagelliformis. Small Green Snake. 1933 House & Garden Jan. 62/2 The stark white archway of the gate will have blackish green snake Cactus (night-blooming Cereus) clinging to it and amazing the night with its luminous white blossoms. < as lemmas |
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