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单词 burning bush
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burning bushn.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: burning adj., bush n.1
Etymology: < burning adj. + bush n.1In sense a with allusion to the story of Moses observing a bush burning without being destroyed by the fire (Exodus 3). The specific uses denoting plants (sense b) each show a different semantic motivation: the artillery plant is probably so called because its male plants expel their pollen forcefully; with the semantic motivation in the case of dittany, compare quot. 1878, and compare also gas plant n. 2; and species of Euonymus are so called on account of their bright red autumn foliage.
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a. ‘The bush that burned and was not consumed’ mentioned in Exodus 3 and assumed as an ensign by the Presbyterian churches of Scotland, in memory of the persecution of the 17th cent.
b. A name applied to various shrubs or plants, as the Artillery plant, Pilea Serpylliflora, the Dictamnus Fraxinella, and (U.S.) the Euonymus atropurpureus and E. Americanus.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > foliage, house, or garden plants > [noun] > artillery plant
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1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. Burning Bush, sometimes applied in gardens to the Artillery plant.
1878 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names Burning Bush, Dictamnus Fraxinella, L. (in gardens). It is said that the plant gives off so large a quantity of essential oil that the air around it becomes inflammable, and will ignite if a light be brought near.
1883 Harper's Mag. Apr. 726/1 The euonymus, or burning-bush, clothed in the autumn with its brilliant scarlet berries.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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