| 单词 | rice flower |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrice flower rice flower n. †(a) an Indian climbing plant having flowers that smell like cooked rice (not identified) (obsolete); †(b) an artificial flower made from rice paper (obsolete); (c) a flower of a rice plant; (d) (chiefly Australian) a pimelea or pimelea flower. [In sense (a) apparently after Portuguese flor de arroz (1704 as fulo di arroz (see quot. 1704), although this is apparently now only attested in sense ‘flower of the rice plant’); compare Malay boingo pitsia pria , although it has not been possible to fully interpret this form (1704 cited in the source of quot. 1704; perhaps compare Malay bunga flower).] ΚΠ 1704 tr. J. Nieuhof Voy. E.-Indies in A. Churchill & J. Churchill Coll. Voy. II. 326/2 The Rice-flower is called by the Portuguese Fulo di Arroz..from its Scent, which is like Rice when it comes boiling hot out of the Pot. 1766 R. Stevens Compl. Guide E.-India Trade 144 Goods Manufactured... Rice Flowers. 1829 J. M. Mackenzie Private Life I. xxii. 172 Besides flirting, which was their regular vocation, they played, and sung,..and japanned skreens, and made Spa baskets, rice flowers, and gum seals. 1868 Students' Normal in Maine Normal 2 443/1 I should like to go to Dixie land, Where the flowers blossom on every hand, Where the cotton waves and the rice flowers nod. 1873 J. Bonwick Tasmanian Lily ix. 76 Then it was not possible to pass by the rice flower. 1942 C. Barrett Austral. Wild Flower Bk. 178 The Pimeleas or rice-flowers belong to the same family as sweet-scented Daphne. 1989 Alternative Agric. (National Res. Council (U.S.) Board Agric.) 405 The flowering stage, from panicle initiation through fertilization of the rice flowers. 2004 Observer 11 Jan. (Mag.) 24/1 An exercise in ‘astroculture’ involving the extraction of essential oils from rose and rice flowers, which was said to hold promise for new perfumes, and so forth. < as lemmas |
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