单词 | honey-wood |
释义 | > as lemmashoney-wood honey-wood n. †(a) a Central and South American tree, Casearia decandra (family Salicaceae), which yields sweet fruit (obsolete); (b) a large Tasmanian shrub, Bedfordia salicina (family Asteraceae ( Compositae)), with honey-scented bark and foliage (now rare). ΚΠ 1750 G. Hughes Nat. Hist. Barbados Index Honey Wood. 1898 E. E. Morris Austral Eng. 123/2 In Tasmania, Bedfordia salicina..is also called Honeywood. 1969 H. J. King & T. E. Burns Wildflowers Tasmania 58 This tree [sc. Bedfordia salicina] is known also as Honey-wood, Dogwood, and Native Willow. < as lemmas |
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