| 单词 | titan arum |
| 释义 | > as lemmastitan arum titan arum n. an araceous plant native to Sumatra, Amorphophallus titanum, known and sometimes cultivated for its enormous solitary inflorescence, which has a long (2.5 metres) tubular spadix and a purplish-red spathe, and smells of rotting flesh; also called corpse flower. ΚΠ 1962 Amer. Hort. Mag. 41 45/2 In April of 1961 Longwood Gardens was able to display for the first time in its greenhouses a flowering specimen of Amorphophallus titanum, the titan arum of Sumatra, often billed incorrectly as ‘the largest flower in the world’. 1976 Hortus Third (L. H. Bailey Hortorium) 70/1 [Amorphophallus] Titanum Becc., Titan Arum. 1995 D. Attenborough Private Life of Plants iii. 134 If an inflorescence may be regarded as a single flower, as it is, surely, by those without botanical inhibitions, then that produced by the titan arum must surely be the largest flower in the world. 2006 Glow (Canada) Dec. 53/1 Fragrance researchers from around the globe have gathered to gush about the rare blooming of the Titan arum—also known as the ‘corpse flower’. < as lemmas |
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