| 单词 | emu-bush |
| 释义 | > as lemmasemu-bush emu-bush n. either of two Australian shrubs (see quots. 18891, 18892). Π 1889 J. H. Maiden Useful Native Plants Austral. 132 Heterodendron oleæfolium..Emu Bush..All the colonies except Tasmania. 1889 J. H. Maiden Useful Native Plants Austral. 317 Eremophila longifolia..‘Emu Bush’, owing to emus feeding on the seeds of this and other species... In all the colonies except Tasmania. 1910 C. E. W. Bean On Wool Track 86 The emu-bush, which droops like the bunch of an emu's tail and is very good to eat—as the rabbits have found. 1931 V. Palmer Separate Lives 211 Country that was a maze of emu-bush and mulga scrubs. 1936 F. Clune Roaming round Darling xvii. 165 The currant or emu bush: needle-leafed, with fruit like blackberries, each one the size of a pea—not caviare to emus. < as lemmas |
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