单词 | driedoring |
释义 | driedoringn. South African. Any of several thorny shrubs or small trees found in the dry plains of southern and tropical Africa, esp. Rhigozum trichotomum of the Bignoniaceae (Jacaranda family). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > thorn-tree or -bush > [noun] > non-British varieties fingrigo1707 cockspura1726 thorny trefoil1760 narra1779 driedoring1824 wild Irishman1850 matagouric1857 tumata-kuru1859 Irishman1860 Jerusalem thorn1866 nabk1874 ilb1894 1824 W. J. Burchell Trav. Interior S. Afr. II. 23 We were at last content to take up a station amongst a few stunted Driedoorns. 1933 Cape Argus 27 July Experiments are..being carried out with the grinding of the Drie Doring Bush. 1952 Cape Argus 15 Mar. 1/2 The wind moaned a little and shook the branches of the drie-doring trees. 1955 L. G. Green Karoo xi. 133 There is another driedoring species, the wilde granaat, which prefers the koppies and gives out brilliant yellow flowers. 1973 E. Palmer & N. Pitman Trees Southern Afr. III. 2002 Burchell founded this genus on the driedoring, Rhigozum trichotomum, the shrub whose spiky form, with the branches dividing and the branchlets subdividing into 3's, is so typical a sight in the arid northern Cape and parts of the western Orange Free State and South West Africa. 1974 Standard Encycl. Southern Afr. X. 82/1 Before this region changes into Karoo it goes through an intermediate stage (Kenhardt, Prieska) where the driedoring (wild pomegranate) predominates. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1824 |
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