单词 | pikake |
释义 | pikaken. A Hawaiian name for: the Arabian jasmine, Jasminum sambac. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > cultivated or ornamental trees and shrubs > [noun] > jasmine jasmine1548 Indian mourner1597 jesse1597 makebate1597 sad tree1597 shrub trefoil1597 sorrowful tree1597 double pipe-tree1629 jessamy1631 mogra1662 melancholy tree1760 night jasmine1866 sampaguita1902 pikake1933 1933 L. B. Armstrong Facts & Figures Hawaii 112 Other Hawaiian lei flowers are the Mauna Loa, Pikaki, Crown Flowers, [etc.]. 1948 M. C. Neal In Gardens of Hawaii 599 In Hawaii, where they are popular for leis, they were named pikake, meaning ‘peacock’, because Princess Kaiulani was very fond both of this flower and of peacocks. 1999 G. Kissick Winter in Volcano (2000) xv. 147 Driving down the makai end of 22nd Ave any day or night, he could always smell pikake, the jasmine in Chinese tea. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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