| 释义 |
begonia|bɪˈgəʊnɪə|
[Named by Plumier after Michel Begon, a French promoter of botany, 1638–1710.]
A genus of succulent under-shrubs and herbaceous plants, mostly of tropical nativity, having flowers without petals but with coloured perianths, and often richly-coloured foliage, for the sake of which many species are cultivated as ornamental plants. Said by Loudon to have been introduced into Great Britain from Jamaica in 1777, but little cultivated before 1840.
1751Chambers Cycl. Supp. s.v. The great purple begonia with auriculated leaves. 1881M. E. Braddon Asph. I. 304 All the tribe of begonias, and house-leeks, newly bedded out. 1883Pall Mall G. 7 Sept. 4/1 The well-known Begonias and Fuchsias; which have..withstood the late storms better than any of their rarer rivals. |