单词 | silver-tree |
释义 | silver-treen. 1. A tree with silvery lanceolate leaves ( Leucadendron argenteum), native to the Western Cape province, South Africa. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > African trees or shrubs > [noun] > other African trees or shrubs keurboom1731 silver-tree1731 witteboom1799 Hottentot's bean1801 melkhouta1823 monkey apple1824 witgatboom1824 Hottentot's bean tree1833 spek-boom1834 mopane1854 Welwitschia1862 ambatch1863 miombo1864 pith tree1864 porkwood1875 tree purslane1882 buffalo-horn1887 monkey guava1887 bush willow1917 melkboom1917 msasa1923 rooibos1932 miraa1945 ovangkol1972 pigeon wood1972 tambotie1973 1731 G. Medley tr. P. Kolb Present State Cape Good-Hope II. 224 The Silver Tree... These trees..are, particularly, much seen about Constantia. 1785 G. Forster tr. A. Sparrman Voy. Cape Good Hope (1786) I. 32 The silver-tree, as it is called, exhibited the whole year throughout its glossy white, or silver gray leaves. 1845–50 A. H. Lincoln Familiar Lect. Bot. (new ed.) 145 The Silver-tree (Protea argentea) has soft leaves resembling satin, of a silver colour. 1893 K. Sanborn Truthful Woman S. Calif. 159 To S. Africa they are indebted for the silver tree. 2. A West Indian tree or shrub belonging to the genus Eugenia. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > [noun] > Eugenia trees silver-tree1756 Eugenia1768 1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. ii. 240 The shrubby Philadelphus, with Myrtle leaves; or the Silver Tree... This little tree is frequent in the red hills. 3. An Australian forest-tree. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > Australasian trees > [noun] > other Australasian trees or shrubs burrawang1826 water gum1826 kaikomako1832 karaka1834 kawa-kawa1838 peppermint1838 bottle tree1844 ngaio1849 Grevillea1853 red birch1853 wooden pear1860 muskwood1866 sugar-tree1866 tulip-tree1866 hop-bush1883 mock orange1884 mountain beech1884 sage tree1884 tile-seed1884 mutton-bird scrub1889 red birch1889 silver-tree1889 whalebone-tree1889 budda1890 camphor laurel1894 pepperbush1895 mustard bush1898 willow myrtle1898 pigeon wood1899 horizontal scrub1909 turkey-bush1911 pandani1923 mock orange1929 1889 J. H. Maiden Useful Native Plants Austral. 604 Tarrietia argyrodendron,..Silver Tree. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1731 |
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