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单词 rondeletia
释义 rondeletia|rɒndəˈliːʃ(ɪ)ə|
Also -olecia.
[mod.L., after the French naturalist Rondelet (1507–66).]
1. A tropical American genus of Cinchonaceæ; a plant or shrub of this genus.
1771Encycl. Brit. III. s.v.1819Pantologia X. s.v., The species chiefly cultivated is..American rondeletia, with a woody stalk ten or twelve feet high;..flowers sessile, white.1882Garden 8 Apr. 242/2 Rondeletias..may now be struck from cuttings made of the young shoots.
2. A perfume resembling that which is characteristic of this genus of plants.
1840Hook Fitzherbert I. vii. 77 His yellow silk pocket-handkerchief scented..with a vile mixture of musk and bergamot, yclept rondolecia.1866Treas. Bot. 989/1 The perfume sold as Rondeletia takes its name from this plant, but is not prepared from any part of it.
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