| 释义 |
ohia|əʊˈhiːə|
Also ohia lehua.
[Hawaiian.]
= lehua. Also attrib.
1824C. S. Stewart Jrnl. 15 June in Jrnl. Residence Sandwich Islands (1828) xi. 305 The only trees and plants known to us, which we saw..were the koa, acacia, a large and beautiful tree of dark, hard wood, the Ohia, eugenia malaccensis, bearing a beautiful tufted, crimson flower, and a fruit called by foreigners, the native apple. 1825[see kukui]. 1866‘Mark Twain’ Lett. from Hawaii (1967) xi. 99 Shady groves of forest trees..and, handsomest of all, the ohia, with its feathery tufts of splendid vermilion-tinted blossoms. 1888[see lehua]. 1917Nature 20 Sept. 57/2 The ohia..also called ohia lehua and lehua, resembles..our white oak, but bears beautiful clusters of scarlet flowers with long, protruding stamens. 1937D. & H. Teilhet Feather Cloak Murders x. 185 A few gnarled ohia trees..grew between the twisted rocks. 1970S. Carlquist Hawaii xvi. 301 The ohia lehua lends a somber air to wet forests because of its dark green foliage, dark gray bark, and often gnarled branches. Roots are formed on the sides of trunks of ohia trees... Ohia forest can be very tall, exceeding fifty feet... The tallest ohias are on the island of Hawaii. |