| 单词 | nicker-tree |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnicker-tree nicker-tree n. any of several trees or shrubs bearing hard, round, often glossy seeds or fruits (cf. sense 2); esp. the bonduc, Caesalpinia bonduc, or (U.S.) the Kentucky coffee-tree, Gymnocladus dioica. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > non-British shrubs > [noun] > tropical > bonduc bonduc1696 nicker-tree1696 horse-nicker1750 nicker1750 1696 H. Sloane Catal. Plantarum in Jamaica 145 The Ash-colour'd Nickar Tree. 1725 H. Sloane Voy. Islands II. 40 Nicker Tree. It grows among shrubs in the Savannas everywhere. 1750 G. Hughes Nat. Hist. Barbados 118 The Black Nicker-Tree. This grows to be a large tree covered with a bark of a greyish white. 1763 J. Clayton Let. 16 Mar. in William & Mary Q. (1926) 6 322 I should, in particular, be very glad to know if you saw anything of the Canada Bonduc, or Nickar-tree. 1847 Pharm. Jrnl. & Trans. 7 225 On the medicinal and economic properties of the Sapindus Saponaria. Soap Berry, or Black Nickar Tree. 1890 Notes & Queries 4 286 The name Nickar Tree is locally given in the United States to the Kentucky coffee tree. 1960 R. A. Vines Trees, Shrubs, & Woody Vines Southwest 531 Kentucky-mahogany, American Coffee-tree, Nicor-tree, and Stump-tree. < as lemmas |
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