单词 | tuba-tree |
释义 | > as lemmastuba-tree A mythical tree growing in the Muslim paradise: see quots. Also tuba-tree. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > heaven > [noun] > tree of life > in non-Christian heaven tuba1817 heaven-tree1835 heaven-plant1865 1817 T. Moore Lalla Rookh 622 My feast is now of the Tooba Tree, Whose scent is the breath of Eternity! 1833 A. Crichton Hist. Arabia I. vii. 317 The Tooba, or tree of happiness, so large that the fleetest horse could not gallop in a hundred years from one end of its shadow to the other. 1875 R. W. Emerson Lett. & Social Aims viii. 206 In [a Persian] poem the soul is figured as the Phoenix alighting on Tuba, the tree of Life. 1894 W. R. Thayer Poems 26 The odors of blooming tuba-trees Thro' the gardens steal. < as lemmas |
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