单词 | combretum |
释义 | combretumn. Any member of the genus of woody plants so named. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > climbing, trailing, or creeping shrubs > [noun] > non-British Paullinia1753 Pothos1754 corchorus1759 water vine1774 cobaea1805 bush-rope1814 combretum1819 kerria1823 pishamin1826 guarana1838 stephanotis1843 lapageria1849 pear-withe1864 waw-waw1864 Bougainvillaea1866 pyxie1882 pine-barren beauty1883 Madagascar jasmine1884 streptosolen1938 1819 Curtis's Bot. Mag. 46 2102 This plant was first recorded as a Combretum by Lamarck. 1836 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Plants (rev. ed.) 1068 Combrétum and Quisquális are among the most splendid of the climbing plants of the tropics, adorning the trees from which they depend with garlands of white and crimson, and yellow. 1929 F. W. H. Migeod in Times 19 Dec. 15/6 This same land risen 700 ft. above the sea, now bears only grass with small trees, included among which are combretums, acacias, euphorbias, [etc.]. 1962 N. Carr Return to Wild v. 46 The running fight had by this time shifted into a thick patch of combretum bush and it was difficult to follow its progress. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1819 |
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