| 单词 | hookthorn acacia |
| 释义 | > as lemmashookthorn acacia Any of various trees or shrubs having hooked thorns, typically spaced in pairs along the branches, esp. (a) (more fully hookthorn acacia) a common tree of grassland and bushveld in southern Africa, Acacia caffra (family Fabaceae), with rough grey bark and a twisted trunk; (b) the blackthorn of southern Africa, Acacia mellifera subsp. detinens, a low-growing shrub or tree of dry lowlands with closely-spaced dark thorns. Cf. haakdoring n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > acacia trees > [noun] acacia1542 babul1696 marblewood1753 black wattle1802 popinac1809 wattlec1810 wattle-treec1810 giraffe tree1815 haakdoring1822 hookthorn1822 kameeldoorn1822 camel-thorn1824 catechu-tree1829 silver wattle1832 blackthorn1833 thorny acacia1834 boobyalla1835 seyal1844 mulga1848 thorn-wood1850 hackthorn1857 mimosa1857 poison tree1857 Port Jackson1857 talha1857 golden wattle1859 whitethorn acacia1860 buffalo thorn1866 nelia1867 siris1874 cassie1876 couba1878 needlebush1884 sallow wattle1884 sally1884 giddea1885 prickly Moses1887 yarran1888 opopanax tree1889 wait-a-while1889 fever tree1893 giraffe acacia1896 stay-a-while1898 brigalow1901 wirra1904 cootamundra1909 Sydney golden wattle1909 witchetty bush1911 rooikrans1917 jam-tree1934 whistling thorn1949 blackthorn1966 1822 W. J. Burchell Trav. Interior S. Afr. I. xiv. 336 The Hook-thorn (Acacia detinens) before described, was found growing here. 1844 W. C. Harris Highlands Æthiopia III. xxix. 251 The inhabitants, flying for shelter to their thick hook-thorn coverts, sustained little loss in killed; but the whole of their wealth was swept away. 1865 Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 35 118 A man will take a forked stick, a thong, and his axe, and occupy nearly a whole day in bringing from a distance a bundle of the hook-thorn to fill up a gap in his cattle or sheepfold. 1868 J. G. Wood Nat. Hist. Man I. xxi. 237 The best example of the hook-thorned vegetation is that which is described by Burchell as the Grapple-plant; but it is better known by the expressive name of Hook-thorn. 1960 J. van Melle tr. U. Krige in D. Wright S. Afr. Stories 132 Stretches of blue hookthorn straddled the slopes. 1990 Fauna & Flora No. 47. 11/1 The common hook thorn Acacia caffra, sweet thorn Acacia karoo and umbrella thorn Acacia tortillis, are the dominant species. < as lemmas |
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