单词 | ninebark |
释义 | > as lemmasninebark ninebark n. any of various shrubs of the chiefly North American genus Physocarpus (family Rosaceae), having bark that peels off in thin layers; also nine bark spice. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > non-British shrubs > [noun] > North-American > nine-bark sevenbark1762 ninebark1789 1789 J. Morse Amer. Geogr. 461 The more useful trees are..plumb trees, nine bark spice, and leather wood bushes. 1851 J. P. Kennedy Swallow Barn (rev. ed.) xiv. 131 Thickets of arrow-wood, nine-bark, and various other shrubs, the growth of this region. 1859 W. Darlington & G. Thurber Amer. Weeds & Useful Plants 120 A very showy ornamental species... Sometimes called ‘Nine-Bark Syringa’. 1949 Chicago Tribune 25 Sept. 111 E/5 Also the effective fall shrub, evergreen Euonymous japonica, the witch hazel, beautybush, privet, ninebark. < as lemmas |
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