单词 | chamisal |
释义 | chamisaln. (a) A dense growth or thicket of chamiso. (b) = chamiso n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > non-British shrubs > [noun] > American or West Indian > chamiso shrub or thicket chamiso1848 chamisal1853 1853 House Repr. Ex. Doc. 91 (Bentley) Traveling..is rendered very trying by..patches of dense masses of shrubbery known as the chemizal. 1862 B. Harte Notes by Flood & Field in Luck of Roaring Camp (1870) 229 With my hand dipped listlessly over the thwarts, I detect the tops of chimisal, which shows the tide to have somewhat fallen. 1902 Bureau Plant Industry Bull. (U.S.) xii. 31 These chaparral areas..have become landmarks, the word chamisal, sometimes corrupted into chemisal,..being adopted as a local name. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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