释义 |
acacia /əˈkeɪʃə / /əˈkeɪsɪə/(also acacia tree) nounA tree or shrub of warm climates which bears spikes or clusters of yellow or white flowers and is typically thorny. Also called wattle1, especially in Australia.- Genus Acacia, family Leguminosae: numerous species.
That is where you've got grazing land largely, and it appears that the woody vegetation, trees, eucalypts and acacias, native pines and other shrubs, are becoming denser and denser....- Alerted by phone, the local authorities had come to see what was happening in Mekhembar, a village of 1,500 people set among thorny acacias and baobab trees with their bulging trunks.
- When particular plants flower in sequence, I have seen the same natural area bathed in the yellow of acacias, white of tea-trees, or pink and purple.
Origin Late Middle English: via Latin from Greek akakia. Rhymes Asia, Croatia, Dalmatia, ex gratia, geisha |