| 单词 | pottery tree |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspottery tree pottery tree n. now rare any of several South American trees of the genus Licania (family Chrysobalanaceae), the bark of which is used in making heat-resistant earthenware, esp. Licania octandra (cf. pottery bark n.). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plants used in paper, glass, or pottery manufacture > [noun] > pottery tree or bark pottery bark1866 pottery tree1866 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 679/2 at Licania The Indians call these trees Caraipe, but botanists have adopted that name for a genus of Ternströmiaceæ, owing to the Pottery tree having at one time been supposed to belong to that order. 1872 Amer. Naturalist 6 186 The ashes of the bark of the Pottery Tree of Para, whose cells are shown by the microscope to be silicated, is mixed with clay by the Indians, and made into a kind of earthenware which is very useful and durable. 1951 Dict. Gardening (Royal Hort. Soc.) III. 1318/2 The natives..grind up the bark of M. utilis (Caraipi or Pottery Tree) to mix with an equal quantity of clay and make therewith domestic pottery capable of withstanding great heat. < as lemmas |
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