单词 | tea-tree bush |
释义 | > as lemmastea-tree bush b. attributive, as tea-tree bark, tea-tree bush, tea-tree marsh, tea-tree oil, tea-tree scrub. ΚΠ 1820 C. Jeffreys Van Dieman's Land iii. 133 For tea they [the Bush Rangers] drink a decoction of the sassafras and other shrubs, particularly one which they call the tea-tree bush. 1827 P. Cunningham Two Years New S. Wales II. xx. 17 Building comfortable huts of tea-tree bark. 1835 J. Batman in K. Cornwallis Panorama New World (1859) I. 406 A dense tea-tree scrub, which we knew to be the surest indication of good water in its neighbourhood. 1883 C. Harpur Poems 78 Why roar the bull-frogs in the tea-tree marsh? 1933 Bulletin (Sydney) 12 July 19/2 The distillation of essential oil from Melaleuca alternifolia (tea-tree) has become an established N.S.W. industry... Some 40 tea-tree-oil preparations are on the market. 1954 Econ. Bot. 8 324/1 Tea-Tree Oil... Collection of leaf material differs from that in operation for eucalyptus leaves. < as lemmas |
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