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单词 silver-tree
释义

silver-treen.

Forms: Also silver tree.
1. A tree with silvery lanceolate leaves ( Leucadendron argenteum), native to the Western Cape province, South Africa.
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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.
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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.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > Australasian trees > [noun] > other Australasian trees or shrubs
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1889 J. H. Maiden Useful Native Plants Austral. 604 Tarrietia argyrodendron,..Silver Tree.
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