| 单词 | puzzle-monkey |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspuzzle-monkey puzzle-monkey n. now rare the monkey-puzzle tree, Araucaria araucana. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > conifers > [noun] > monkey-puzzle araucaria1834 Chile pine1852 araucarian1854 monkey-puzzle1856 puzzle-monkey1863 monkey-puzzler1876 1863 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 577/1 One may abstain from touching the ‘puzzle-monkey’ trees which infest life's path. 1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 11 Mar. 11/1 To see and paint the old forests of Araucaria imbricata, known in England as the puzzle-monkey tree, rather unreasonably, as there are no monkeys here to puzzle. 1934 Times 5 Jan. 17/3 He had sometimes been afraid that they would have admired a puzzle-monkey more than a beech. < as lemmas |
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