| 单词 | sausage-tree |
| 释义 | > as lemmassausage-tree sausage-tree n. an evergreen tree, Kigelia pinnata, belonging to the family Bignoniaceæ, native to tropical Africa, and bearing red, bell-shaped flowers followed by pendulous, hard-shelled fruits shaped like large sausages. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > African trees or shrubs > [noun] > evergreens kamassi1793 Mimusops1836 silk-bark1851 wild chestnut1854 mohonono1857 kippersol1893 Cape chestnut1912 sausage-tree1915 moepel1934 1915 Standard Cycl. Hort. III. 1738/1 The ‘fetish-tree’ and ‘sausage-tree’, is offered in S[outhern] Calif[ornia], and specimens may be expected in botanical collections in the W. Indies. 1944 Sun (Baltimore) 6 Dec. 8– d/3 An ‘Admirer Visiting in Florida’ sends me a colored picture postal-card view of a sausage tree... There they hang, the sausage-like seed pods, amid a background of wonderful green foliage. 1956 E. E. Evans-Pritchard Nuer Relig. xii. 298 The man who has committed incest..cuts in two the fruit of a sausage-tree. 1962 Times 9 Oct. (Uganda Suppl.) p. viii/4 The incredible sausage-tree with its dangling woody fruits. 1977 D. Beaty Excellency xii. 133 The sausage trees with heavy fruits shaped like giant loofahs. < as lemmas |
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