| 释义 |
flooded, ppl. a.
1. In the senses of the verb.
1834M. Scott Cruise Midge (1859) 429 From the flooded floor the water was soaking through the seams. 1854J. S. C. Abbott Napoleon (1855) II. iv. 76 ‘Pardon’, she exclaimed with..flooded eyes. 1881Mrs. C. Praed Policy & P. I. 130 Madox had..saved Cathcart's life in a flooded creek.
2. flooded gum Austral., any of several eucalypts growing in damp soil.
1847F. W. L. Leichhardt Jrnl. Overland Exped. Austral. x. 324 The latter part of the stage was again over a large box-flat, intersected by shallow grassy depressions, timbered with flooded-gum. 1884A. Nilson Timber Trees N.S.W. 136 Flooded gum, Eucalyptus rostrata, saligna, viminalis, resinifera. 1933D. G. Stead Tree Bk. 24 A splendid tree is the Sydney Blue Gum, also called Flooded Gum. This tree grows to more than 150 feet high in the eastern forests of New South Wales and southern Queensland. 1965Austral. Encycl. III 405/1 Large Sydney blue gums or flooded gums (E. saligna) at Tamborine Mountain. |