英语词汇“cabbage wood”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

cabbage wood n. now rare †(a) any of several kinds of wood used for decorative joinery; esp. that of the West Indian cabbage tree, Roystonia oleracea, and the cabbage bark tree, Andira inermis (obsolete); (b) the lightweight wood of the kapok tree, Ceiba pentandra, of tropical America and West Africa; (c) the wood of any of several southern African trees of the genus Cussonia (family Araliaceae); any of these trees themselves.

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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > palm

palmyra1698

porcupine wood1779

cabbage wood1829

palmyra wood1846

nutmeg-wooda1854

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > yielding fibre, thatching, or basket material > [noun] > trees or shrubs yielding fibre, etc. > silk-cotton trees

gossipine1589

gossampine1601

cotton tree1670

god tree1681

silk-cotton tree1712

kapok1735

semul1809

ceiba1810

wool-tree1831

bombax1834

munguba1863

cabbage wood1885

1829 Descr. & Hist. Veg. Substances: Timber Trees, & Fruits (Soc. for Diffusion Useful Knowl.) ii. viii. 354 The wood of the areca palm, or cabbage palm of South America, is sometimes used in ornamental furniture, under the name of cabbage wood.

1843 C. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. I. 99 Partridge-wood..is also known as Cabbage-wood... It is now principally used for walking sticks, umbrella and parasol sticks, and in cabinet-work and turning.

1885 A. B. Ellis W. Afr. Islands i. 9 Tree-ferns and cabbage-wood grow luxuriantly on the main ridge of mountains [in St Helena].

1908 Bull. Misc. Information (Royal Bot. Gardens, Kew) No. 4. 149 A specimen collected by Burke..is very like the glaucous-leaved cabbage-wood..so common on dry kopjies throughout the Transvaal high veld.

1909 C. S. Osborn Andean Land II. xvi. 164 These balsas or rafts of cabbage wood are made from the trunks of ceibo or cabbage wood trees and are often fifty feet long or more.

1937 G. Mossop Running Gauntlet xiv. 219 I was standing near a tall, slender cabbage wood tree about a foot in diameter at the base.

单词	cabbage wood
释义	> as lemmas cabbage wood cabbage wood n. now rare †(a) any of several kinds of wood used for decorative joinery; esp. that of the West Indian cabbage tree, Roystonia oleracea, and the cabbage bark tree, Andira inermis (obsolete); (b) the lightweight wood of the kapok tree, Ceiba pentandra, of tropical America and West Africa; (c) the wood of any of several southern African trees of the genus Cussonia (family Araliaceae); any of these trees themselves. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > palm palmyra1698 porcupine wood1779 cabbage wood1829 palmyra wood1846 nutmeg-wooda1854 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > yielding fibre, thatching, or basket material > [noun] > trees or shrubs yielding fibre, etc. > silk-cotton trees gossipine1589 gossampine1601 cotton tree1670 god tree1681 silk-cotton tree1712 kapok1735 semul1809 ceiba1810 wool-tree1831 bombax1834 munguba1863 cabbage wood1885 1829 Descr. & Hist. Veg. Substances: Timber Trees, & Fruits (Soc. for Diffusion Useful Knowl.) ii. viii. 354 The wood of the areca palm, or cabbage palm of South America, is sometimes used in ornamental furniture, under the name of cabbage wood. 1843 C. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. I. 99 Partridge-wood..is also known as Cabbage-wood... It is now principally used for walking sticks, umbrella and parasol sticks, and in cabinet-work and turning. 1885 A. B. Ellis W. Afr. Islands i. 9 Tree-ferns and cabbage-wood grow luxuriantly on the main ridge of mountains [in St Helena]. 1908 Bull. Misc. Information (Royal Bot. Gardens, Kew) No. 4. 149 A specimen collected by Burke..is very like the glaucous-leaved cabbage-wood..so common on dry kopjies throughout the Transvaal high veld. 1909 C. S. Osborn Andean Land II. xvi. 164 These balsas or rafts of cabbage wood are made from the trunks of ceibo or cabbage wood trees and are often fifty feet long or more. 1937 G. Mossop Running Gauntlet xiv. 219 I was standing near a tall, slender cabbage wood tree about a foot in diameter at the base. extracted from cabbagen.¹ < as lemmas
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