| 单词 | cotton-bush |
| 释义 | > as lemmascotton-bush cotton-bush n. (a) a bush on which cotton grows; (b) any of various Australian shrubs (esp. Kochia aphylla) having a downy appearance. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > yielding fibre, thatching, or basket material > [noun] > cotton-plant cottonc1400 cotton-bush1672 cotton plant1751 the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > non-British shrubs > [noun] > Australasian banksia1787 waratah1793 honeysuckle1803 pinkwood1824 honeysuckle tree1825 rose1825 blue bush1828 dogwood1828 parrotbill1829 tulip-tree1830 whitebeard1832 swamp-oak1833 bauera1835 mungitec1837 bottlebrush1839 clianthus1841 glory-pea1848 boronia1852 koromiko1855 pituri1861 Sturt's pea1865 scrub vine1866 pea-bush1867 cotton-bush1876 Australian honeysuckle1881 peach myrtle1882 saloop bush1884 naupaka1888 dog rose1896 native tulip1898 snow bush1909 wedding-bush1923 Hebe1961 mountain pepper1965 1672 W. Hughes Amer. Physitian 70 Of cotton-bushes there are two sorts. 1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. li. 414 The Bombast and Cotton Bushes. 1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. iii. 435 The caterpillars of these flies are frequently pernicious to the cotton-bushes. 1876 J. A. Giles in W. Harcus South Australia 201 A fine open hilly district..with plenty of herbage and cotton-bush. 1902 J. H. M. Abbott Tommy Cornstalk 20 The species of salt-bush known in Australia as ‘cotton-bush’. 1941 F. D. Davison in Coast to Coast 1941 104 He memorized the position of a couple of cotton bushes. < as lemmas |
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