单词 | niaouli |
释义 | niaoulin. 1. An evergreen tree, Melaleuca quinquenervia (family Myrtaceae), native to New Caledonia, New Guinea, and eastern Australia and noted for its resistance to fire. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > [adjective] simaroubaceous1818 paperbark1841 ficoid1884 ficoidal1884 niaouli1884 ternstrœmiaceous1885 Terminalia1926 tiare1931 1884 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 376/2 On the lower [hills]..there are fine grass lands, and a scattered growth of niaulis (Melaleuca viridiflora), useful for its timber, bark, and cajeput oil. 1921 Public Opinion 29 July 109/2 A mat of pandanus leaves served for his sail and a paddle of niaouli wood for its helm. 1963 Austral. Encycl. VI. 27/1 M[elaleuca] viridiflora is commonly recognized for the east-coast tree which extends to New Caledonia, surviving repeated fires and re-seeding heavily on the drier west coast of that island (where it is called ‘niaouli’). 1965 Univ. Iowa Stud. Nat. Hist. 20 vii. 52 (caption) This frequent burning maintains the enormous area of fire-resistant niaouli. 1993 Biodiversity Lett. 1 71 The sclerophyllous forest in the western part of the Territory rapidly decreased..leaving behind a uniform savanna of niaouli. 2. An inhabitant of New Caledonia. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > [noun] > melaleuca tree or shrub Melaleuca1777 paperbark1841 cajuput tree1876 milkwood1889 niaouli1943 1943 Amer. Speech 18 14 It would be..impossible to root them [sc. English words] out of the Niaouli's everyday language. 3. = niaouli oil n. at Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medical preparations of specific origin > medicine composed of a plant > [noun] > oils and oily preparations oil of rosesa1398 oil (of) hypericon1471 oil of philosophers1547 almond oil1560 oil of tile1634 brick oil1656 rosat1674 philosophical oil1750 oleosaccharum1757 oil of wintergreen1827 wintergreen oil1843 pinhoen oil1846 gaultheria oil1848 carap oilc1865 pulza oil1866 niaouli1993 1993 Herb Q. (Nexis) Fall Rub their backs and chests with oil to which a few drops of eucalyptus and niaouli or tea tree have been added. 2000 Here's Health May 26/1 Try a few drops of niaouli with cypress in a carrier such as olive oil. Compounds niaouli oil n. the aromatic essential oil derived from the niaouli tree, which has antibacterial and antifungal properties. ΚΠ 1955 G. M. Hocking Dict. Terms Pharmacognosy 150/1 Niaouli,..source of n [iaouli] oil (‘gomenol’ in dilution). 1987 D. J. Mabberley Plant-bk. 363 Source of niaouli oil like cajuput, the trees forming almost pure stands after the native vegetation of New Caledonia is destroyed by fire. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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