| 单词 | poverty plant |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspoverty plant poverty plant n. any of various plants which grow on poor soil; esp. a small North American heathlike shrub, Hudsonia tomentosa (family Cistaceae). ΚΠ 1890 Cent. Dict. Poverty-plant, a cistaceous plant, Hudsonia tomentosa, a little heath-like shrub of sandy shores. 1955 Sheboygan (Wisconsin) Press 13 Apr. 14/3 Heather, which grows in Scotland on land too poor to support grass is called ‘poverty plant’ by the British. 1997 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 3 Nov. 1 Dog fennel is a ‘poverty plant’ that thrives in areas where land is in transition. < as lemmas |
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