单词 | love bush |
释义 | > as lemmaslove bush love bush n. chiefly Caribbean any of various parasitic twining plants of the genus Cuscuta (family Convolvulaceae); cf. dodder n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > poisonous or harmful plants > parasitic plants > [noun] > dodder doddera1300 hellweedc1510 choke-fitch1562 epithyme1585 podagry1657 devil's guts1670 love bush1814 love vine1833 flax-dodder1852 red tangle1857 fairies' hair1868 1814 J. Lunan Hortus Jamaicensis I. 266 Cuscuta Americana... The negroes of Liguanea mountains call it love-bush. 1904 Newark (Ohio) Daily Advocate 6 Aug. 7/2 Oh, the wealth of blossom the love bush had once borne! 1954 Farmer's Guide (Jamaica Agric. Soc.) 582 The common Love-bushes of Jamaica comprise about four species of Cuscuta. 1986 O. P. Adisa Bake-Face & Other Guava Stories 16 Her eyes stare at the hedges of love-bush, the seeds of which Carol scattered a few months ago when asking for Richard's love. < as lemmas |
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