单词 | spice tree |
释义 | spice tree (once / 513884 pages) n WORD FAMILY spice tree: spice trees USAGE EXAMPLESUnderneath, and dispersed among the imperial beauties, were spice trees, orange trees, coffee plants and cocoa, or again, shrubs with special virtues or vices. Froude, James Anthony, The English in the West Indies—or,...(2010) They have therefore compelled the native chiefs to destroy the spice trees growing in their territories wherever they have been able to do so. Kingston, William Henry Giles, In the Eastern Seas(2010) Large groves of spice trees grew here and there, and the natives were working in the fields with the regularity of Europeans. Browne, Gordon, Under Drake's Flag—A Tale of the Sp...(2010) 1n Pacific coast tree having aromatic foliage and small umbellate flowers followed by olivelike fruit; yields a hard tough wood Syn|Hyper California bay tree, California laurel, California olive, Oregon myrtle, Umbellularia californica, mountain laurel, pepperwood, sassafras laurel laurel any of various aromatic trees of the laurel family 2n tree bearing aromatic bark or berries Hypo|Hyper Myristica fragrans, nutmeg, nutmeg tree East Indian tree widely cultivated in the tropics for its aromatic seed; source of two spices: nutmeg and mace Pimenta dioica, allspice, allspice tree, pimento treearomatic West Indian tree that produces allspice berries Pimenta officinalis, allspice treetropical American tree having small white flowers and aromatic berries Eugenia aromaticum, Eugenia caryophyllatum, Syzygium aromaticum, clove, clove treemoderate sized very symmetrical red-flowered evergreen widely cultivated in the tropics for its flower buds which are source of cloves angiospermous tree, flowering tree any tree having seeds and ovules contained in the ovary |
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