单词 | courida |
释义 | couridan. Botany. The common name in Guyana for the black mangrove, Avicennia marina, a small tree which grows on muddy flats along the sea-shore in the tropics; also, the timber from this. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > [noun] > mangroves > Avicennia mangroves white mangrove1683 black mangrove1697 courida1825 Avicennia1836 manawa1838 1825 C. Waterton Wanderings in S. Amer. i. 10 The pelicans..return at sundown to the courada trees. 1840 R. H. Schomburgk Descr. Brit. Guiana 7 A fringe of low ground, which is soon covered with..Courida Bushes. 1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. IV. 984/1 Courida, transverse and vertical sections, from Plantation Woodlands, River Mahaica. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. at Avicennia 1912 J. Rodway Guiana 26 The coast is generally an alluvial flat..fringed with courida. 1958 J. Carew Wild Coast vi. 73 He was able to run and swim, cut down courida trees. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1825 |
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