| 单词 | whitethorn acacia |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswhitethorn acacia 2. Also whitethorn acacia. Any of several acacias having whitish thorns, esp. Acacia constricta and A. seyal. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > acacia trees > [noun] acacia1542 babul1696 marblewood1753 black wattle1802 popinac1809 wattlec1810 wattle-treec1810 giraffe tree1815 haakdoring1822 hookthorn1822 kameeldoorn1822 camel-thorn1824 catechu-tree1829 silver wattle1832 blackthorn1833 thorny acacia1834 boobyalla1835 seyal1844 mulga1848 thorn-wood1850 hackthorn1857 mimosa1857 poison tree1857 Port Jackson1857 talha1857 golden wattle1859 whitethorn acacia1860 buffalo thorn1866 nelia1867 siris1874 cassie1876 couba1878 needlebush1884 sallow wattle1884 sally1884 giddea1885 prickly Moses1887 yarran1888 opopanax tree1889 wait-a-while1889 fever tree1893 giraffe acacia1896 stay-a-while1898 brigalow1901 wirra1904 cootamundra1909 Sydney golden wattle1909 witchetty bush1911 rooikrans1917 jam-tree1934 whistling thorn1949 blackthorn1966 1837 T. G. Bradford Murray's Encycl. Geogr. (rev. ed.) III. ii. vii. 57 The Acacia capensis..(Doornboom), or Thorn tree, Wittedoorn (Whitethorn), and Karrodoorn (Karrothorn) has straight white thorns.] 1860 Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 30 234 Descending on the farther side of the Bushman's River, upon a plain sprinkled with the whitethorn acacia of the Boers, you pass the Mord Spruit. 1908 Bull. Misc. Information (Royal Bot. Gardens, Kew) 156 Acacia Catechu,... Our largest species of Acacia..called ‘White Thorn’. 1955 Amer. Midland Naturalist 54 46 The dominant plant is whitethorn (Acacia constricta). 1991 Tucson (Arizona) Weekly 17 July 34/2 Creosote, tarbush and whitethorn acacia dominate the broad basins between grim mountains of..limestone. 2007 B. Shorrocks Biol. Afr. Savannahs ii. 50 The white thorn (Acacia seyal) is a small, slender tree..which can develop a characteristic umbrella-shaped canopy. < as lemmas |
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