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单词 shot-bush
释义 shot-bush U.S.
[shot n.1; ‘from its shot-like fruit’ (Cent. Dict.).]
A name for two species of Aralia: the small prickly tree Hercules' club, A. spinosa, and the Wild Sarsaparilla, A. nudicaulis.
1785[see pigeon-weed s.v. pigeon n. 6].1845–50A. H. Lincoln Lect. Bot. App. 75/2 Aralia..spinosa (shot-bush, angelica tree).1872Schele de Vere Americanisms 414 In the South the Tear-Coat (Aralia spinosa), also humorously called Shot-Bush, rises almost to the dignity of a tree, its prickles being quite formidable to the hunting-shirts and Indian blankets.
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