单词 | wild pisang |
释义 | > as lemmaswild pisang 2. South African. A strelitzia; esp. (more fully wild pisang) Strelitzia alba. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > tropical or exotic fruit-tree or -plant > banana tree > types of Pharaoh's fig?a1425 ensete1790 pisang1812 Lacatan1894 sucrier1911 1812 A. Plumptre tr. H. Lichtenstein Trav. S. Afr. I. xv. 204 The Pisang river..has this name from the profusion of wild Pisang,..strelitzia alba, that grows upon its banks. 1824 W. J. Burchell Trav. Interior S. Afr. II. 258 The very close resemblance which exists between the Strelitzia augusta or Wild Pisang (Wild Plantain) of the Cape Colony, and the Urania speciosa of that island [sc. Madagascar]. 1939 J. F. Bense Dict. Low-Dutch Elem. in Eng. Vocab. 285 Wild pisang, the name given to a S. African allied plant, Strelitzia augusta. < as lemmas |
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