单词 | spathodea |
释义 | spathodean. The African tulip tree, Spathodea campanulata, of the evergreen family Bignoniaceae, grown as an ornamental throughout the tropics for its clusters of tulip-shaped orange and scarlet flowers. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > cultivated or ornamental trees and shrubs > [noun] > other ornamental trees or shrubs ambrosieOE minced pie1739 Christmas bush1750 black-gum1785 Nandina1787 allamanda1789 restio1796 moutan1808 tree peony1811 snowberry1815 aucuba1819 zamang1819 Deutzia1837 ground-jasmine1848 nandin1866 heavenly bamboo1871 spathodea1873 Escallonia1882 nanten1884 o-matsu1916 Japanese pagoda tree1924 dove tree1933 1873 C. J. G. Rampini Lett. from Jamaica 64 Beside the court-house stood a splendid Spathodea in full blossom. 1930 F. B. Young Jim Redlake iv. vi. 633 They must be nearing some river, it seemed, for the trees grew taller. In front of them stood one, a huge spathodea Jim thought, with a cold, gleaming trunk that shot straight upward..like a pillar of silver. 1973 J. C. Wells Jamaican Pronunc. in London i. 15 /tSini/ ‘Spathodea tree’. 1983 D. Caute The K-Factor i. 13 She showed him her imported trees, her spathodia [sic], her Australian blackwood, her monkey puzzle. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.1873 |
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