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单词 geonoma
释义 geonoma Bot.|dʒiːˈɒnəmə|
[mod.L. (C. L. Willdenow 1804, in Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences de Berlin 37), f. Gr. γεωνόµος a colonist, in allusion to its rapid propagation.]
A tree of the genus of small palms so named, natives of South and Central America.
1849R. Spruce Notes of Botanist on Amazon & Andes (1908) I. i. 11 The roofs were..made by tying several of the broad flat fronds of a small palm called Ubím (Geonoma) on to a stick so as to closely overlap each other.1871Jrnl. Linn. Soc. Bot. XI. 104 The fine Geonomas discovered by Wendland in Central America are not always represented in the Kew Herbarium by specimens perfect enough to enable one to classify them with certainty.1910Daily Chron. 12 Mar. 8/4 Other graceful plants for our rooms are the Latania, the Grevillea, the Kentia, the Geonoma, the Rhapis, and the Dracæna.1966E. J. H. Corner Nat. Hist. Palms xii. 307 If one wanted to study thoroughly the minutiae of palm-evolution..Geonoma should be the choice.
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