| 单词 | red mangle |
| 释义 | > as lemmasred mangle Any mangrove of the genus Rhizophora, esp. (more fully red mangle) the red mangrove, R. mangle (also mangle-tree); any of certain other mangroves. Also (esp. with distinguishing word) any of certain other (chiefly saltmarsh) plants thought to resemble a mangrove. Also: a thicket of mangroves. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > [noun] > mangroves mangle1613 mangrove1613 mangrove treec1625 button tree1698 Rhizophora1753 yam1753 button mangrove1864 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage viii. ii. 733 Mangle is the name of a Tree, which multiplieth it selfe into a wood. [Cf. p. 698 margin: Andrew Battell saith, That the tree which thus strangely multiplies itselfe is called the Manga tree.] 1693 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 17 621 Two sorts of the Mangle-Tree, of the Arbor de Raiz kind, though no Figg. 1754 New & Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. III. 1982/1 Mangles, in botany, the same with the rhizophora of Linnæus. 1758 J. Adams tr. A. de Ulloa Voy. S.-Amer. I. iv. viii. 185 In its neighbourhood [sc. Guayaquil]..are great numbers of mangles, or mangrove trees. 1797 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 215/1 The red mangle or mangrove grows on the sea-shore, and at the mouth of large rivers...White mangle, so termed from the colour of its wood, grows..upon the banks of rivers. 1824 H. E. Lloyd tr. J. B. von Spix & C. F. P. von Martius Trav. Brazil I. 217 (note) The mangle or mangrove tree. 1876 C. E. Hobbs Bot. Hand-bk. 67 Mangle, Avicennia tomentosa. 1885 U.S. Cons. Rep. No. 59. 268 Mangle-bark is principally used in tanning leather. 1911 A. J. Morrison tr. J. D. Schöpf Trav. in Confederation 1783–4 II. 309 The mangle-tree grows everywhere along the shores. 1940 W. N. Clute Amer. Plant Names 225 Iva oraria. Green mangle, mangle, poverty-weed. 1981 L. Valls What a Pistarkle! 76/1 Mangle, mangrove tree (Laguncularia racemosa) or forest found in muddy coastal swamps. < as lemmas |
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