| 单词 | jew bush |
| 释义 | > as lemmasJew bush Jew bush n. a tropical American spurge, Euphorbia tithymaloides, previously used medicinally for its emetic properties and now cultivated as a garden plant for its bright red flowers. [Perhaps so called because it was said to grow especially in Jewish cemeteries in Caribbean islands.] ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > spurges and allies > [noun] physic nut1657 milk-bush1696 milk-tree1698 poison-bush1740 jatropha1754 milky-hedge1773 milk hedge1780 chandelier plant1827 Jew bush1830 candelabrum1834 poinsettia1836 slipper-plant1848 coquillo1851 zebra poison1871 oil tree1879 picture-tree1885 slipper spurs1887 monkey fiddle1913 milk plant1965 stringwood- 1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 105 The Jew Bush, or Milk plant. 1923 P. C. Standley Trees & Shrubs Mexico (Contrib. U.S. Herbarium Vol. 23, Pt. 3) 605 Pedilanthus tithymaloides... The plant is sometimes cultivated under the names ‘slipper-plant’, ‘bird-cactus’, ‘redbird cactus’, and ‘Jew-bush’. 2017 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 4 Nov. (Forum section) 33 There's the Jew-Bush, which is ‘a tropical American plant with powerful emetic properties’—and I know ‘emetic’ sounds positive, I know it sounds healing, but I checked it up and it means ‘vomiting’, so basically this is a Semitic spewing shrub. < as lemmas |
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