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单词 bottle tree
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bottle treen.

Brit. /ˈbɒtl triː/, U.S. /ˈbɑdəl ˌtri/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: bottle n.3, tree n.
Etymology: < bottle n.3 + tree n., with allusion to the bottle-like shape of the tree trunk.With use denoting a thorny shrub of south-west Africa (see sense 2), compare Afrikaans bottelboom (1972 or earlier).
1. Chiefly Australian.
a. Any of several trees of the genus Brachychiton (family Malvaceae) found in eastern Australia, in which the central section of the trunk is greatly swollen to allow the retention of water, esp. B. rupestris of Queensland.
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1844 L. Leichhardt Jrnl. Overland Exped. Austral. 11 Oct. (1847) 13 The Bottle-tree (Sterculia, remarkable for an enlargement of the stem, about three feet above the ground) was observed within the scrub.
1846 C. P. Hodgson Reminisc. Austral. 264 The sterculia or bottle-tree is a very singular curiosity. It generally varies in shape between a soda water and port wine bottle.
1885 R. C. Praed Head Station 179 In dense scrub, where the bottle-trees rose weird and white.
1889 J. H. Maiden Useful Native Plants Austral. 60 A ‘Kurrajong’. The ‘Bottle-tree’ of N.E. Australia, and also called ‘Gouty-stem’.
1891 Mrs. P. Martin Coo-ee 284 A great white bottle tree, its trunk perfectly bare.
1931 F. D. Davison Man-shy (1934) vii. 107 Through open bottle-tree country.
1958 R. Stow To Islands 52 Not far from the aerodrome strip there, under the bottle tree.
2000 Leyland's Austral. Winter 14/3 Several lovely Broad Leafed Bottle Trees grow among the columns.
b. A baobab (genus Adansonia); spec. the Australian baobab, A. gregorii, of north-western Australia.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > yielding fibre, thatching, or basket material > [noun] > trees or shrubs yielding fibre, etc. > baobab tree
baobab1640
Adansonia1763
monkey bread1849
bottle tree1880
1880 G. Aberigh-Mackay Twenty-one Days in India xvi. 153 Look at this prisoner slumbering peacefully beside his huqqa under the suggestive bottle tree.
1886 Evening News (Sydney) 20 Oct. 5/5 Kimberley Goldfields... We were taking off the packs under the shade afforded by three huge bottle trees, whose trunks almost united, when we saw the afflicted horse walking toward us.
1935 Lady Rockley Wild Flowers Great Dominions Brit. Empire 169 The fantastic Bottle tree or Australian Baobab (Adansonia Gregorii)..also grows in the Kimberley district of Western Australia.
1955 F. Lane Patrol to Kimberleys 28 ‘That's a baobab tree,’ his uncle said. ‘This northwest section of Australia has a copyright on them. It's also called the “boab” or “bottle-tree”.’
2013 Daily Tel. (Austral.) (Nexis) 27 July 62 The hollow boab or bottle tree (Adansonia gregorii) was used as prison lockup in the 1890s for indigenous prisoners on their way to court.
2. Any of various other trees and shrubs with broadly expanded trunks or stems, typically found in arid or semi-desert regions, esp. the desert rose of Africa and Arabia, Adenia obesum, and the thorny shrub Pachypodium lealii (family Apocynaceae) of south-west Africa.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > non-British flowers > of Africa
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bottle tree1931
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1931 Sci. Monthly Apr. 322/1 [Plant hunting in Madagascar] Substantial bottle trees 10 feet thick, Euphorbias 40 feet tall, gigantic didiereas with their long leafless branches.
1972 E. Palmer & M. Pitman Trees Southern Afr. III. 1925 Bottle tree is a good name for this oddly shaped species of dry rocky hillsides of northern South West Africa.
1984 R. Rabesandratana in A. Jolly et al. Madagascar iii. 66 Pachycauly reigns in this arid region of the Island, to the point where species of very diverse families have swollen trunks... Laymen call all these different species ‘bottle-trees’.
1997 T. Mackintosh-Smith Yemen (1999) viii. 229 The road followed a perennial stream lined with little date palms, while ranks of bottle trees marched across the slopes above.
2012 G. Brown & B. A. Mies Vegetation Ecol. Socotra v. 118 The most conspicuous feature of the stem in connection with the bottle-tree habit is the large quantity of ray and conjunctive parenchyma.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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