单词 | aucuba |
释义 | aucuban. Botany. 1. A well-known hardy evergreen diœcious shrub ( Aucuba Japonica, family Cornaceæ), with laurel-like leaves usually blotched with pale yellow, grown for ornamental purposes. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > cultivated or ornamental trees and shrubs > [noun] > other ornamental trees or shrubs ambrosieOE minced pie1739 Christmas bush1750 black-gum1785 Nandina1787 allamanda1789 restio1796 moutan1808 tree peony1811 snowberry1815 aucuba1819 zamang1819 Deutzia1837 ground-jasmine1848 nandin1866 heavenly bamboo1871 spathodea1873 Escallonia1882 nanten1884 o-matsu1916 Japanese pagoda tree1924 dove tree1933 1819 A. Rees Cycl. III Aucuba, a large Japanese tree..introduced by Mr. John Grœfer in 1783. 1862 S. Partridge Eng. Months 10 The aucuba shows in the shrubbery his broadening leaf Spotted with gold. 2. aucuba mosaic [mosaic n.] , a mosaic disease which attacks the leaves of solanaceous plants. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > type of disease > viral diseases > associated with food or crop plants > potatoes curl1790 leaf curl1850 leafroll1859 aucuba mosaic1922 rugose mosaic1923 1922 H. M. Quanjer in Rep. Internat. Potato Conf. 136 On account of its resemblance to the variegation of Aucuba japonica, I call it Aucuba-mosaic [of potato]. 1936 Nature 21 Mar. 500/2 It was not..possible to distinguish serologically the viruses of tobacco mosaic, aucuba mosaic and tomato streak. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1819 |
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