单词 | sweet pinesap |
释义 | > as lemmassweet pinesap pinesap n. (a) North American either of two saprophytic plants, yellow bird's-nest, Monotropa hypopitys, formerly supposed to be parasitic on the roots of pines, and (in full sweet pinesap) the related Monotropsis odorata, which smells of violets; (b) the sap of a pine tree. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > poisonous or harmful plants > parasitic plants > [noun] > monotropa genus (Indian pipe) Monotropa1753 wax-plant1801 Indian pipe1822 pinesap1824 tobacco-pipe1845 ghost plant1856 fir-rape1861 Indian pipestem1869 1824 J. Bigelow Florula Bostoniensis (ed. 2) 176 Monotropa lanuginosa... Pine sap... The root..consists of a mass of agglomerated brownish fibres, said to be parasitic on the roots of trees. 1856 A. Gray Man. Bot. Northern U.S. (ed. 2) 261 Schweinitzia, Ell. Sweet Pine-sap... A low and smooth brownish plant, 3′–4′ high.., the flowers..exhaling the fragrance of violets. 1915 M. Armstrong & J. J. Thornber Field Bk. Western Wild Flowers 358 Pine-sap, Hypopitys Hypopitys (Monotropa)... The whole plant is waxy, flesh-color or yellowish. 1959 T. R. E. Southwood & D. Leston Land & Water Bugs Brit. Isles ii. 13 A. cinnamomeus differs from other flatbugs..in not being a fungus feeder, for it lives on pine sap. 1988 National Geographic Nov. p. xx What might have become a housing development..remains home to Maryland's only known colony of sweet pinesap. 2001 Kenyon Rev. Winter 108 For the eclipsed sun, quick-cooled like molten lead, Like a drop of pine sap, an abacus bead. sweet pine-sap sweet pine-sap n. ΚΠ 1867 A. Gray Man. Bot. Northern U.S. (ed. 5) 304 Schweinitzia, Sweet Pine~sap. < as lemmas |
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