| 单词 | alkali bush |
| 释义 | > as lemmasalkali bush b. Designating plants whose ashes yield alkali or which grow in alkaline or saline soils, esp. saltwort and glasswort. Chiefly as alkali bush, alkali plant. Cf. sense A. 3. ΚΠ 1860 A. N. Bell Knowl. Living Things xiii. 120 The ashes of plants are characterized by four chief classes of components: readily soluble alkaline salts; earths, especially lime and magnesia; phosphoric acid and silex... According to this, Liebig divides the cultivated vegetables into: I. Alkali plants, to which belong Potatoes and Beets [etc.]. 1881 S. Merrill East of Jordan xx. 256 Our glasses revealed a few camels standing among the alkali bushes. 1926 T. E. Lawrence Seven Pillars (subscribers' ed.) lxxiii. 382 Natural trenches, admirably screened with alkali bushes. 1926 Isis 8 507 He had tried to show that..sagilatu [is not] cyperus, but an alkali plant. 1935 Auk 52 441 Some segments of the alkali-weed (Salicornia sp.) also were being taken. 2006 Camping Life (Nexis) June 10 Leopard lizards..prefer flat, wide-open, semi-arid expanses dotted with desert flora such as alkali bush, sagebrush and creosote. < as lemmas |
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