| 单词 | gamboge tree |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgamboge tree 2. More fully gamboge tree. Any of several tropical Asian trees of the genus Garcinia (family Clusiaceae ( Guttiferae)) from which the gum resin gamboge (see sense A. 1) is obtained; esp. the widely cultivated G. xanthochymus. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular tree or plant yielding useful gum or resin > [noun] > Asian > other Asian gum trees asafœtida1607 gamboge1752 rose malloes1752 rasamala1817 thitsi1832 wood-apple1858 cattimandoo1880 gurjun1892 1752 C. Alston Index Medicamentorum 46 The Gamboge-tree. 1794 W. Forsyth Bot. Nomenclator Eng. Index Gamboge, Stalagmites. 1824 J. White Voy. Cochin China xvi. 249 The forests..afford iron-wood, several species of the varnish-tree, the dammer or pitch tree, the gambooge, the bamboo, and the rattan. 1876 J. Harley Royle's Man. Materia Med. (ed. 6) 698 The Gamboge is native of Siam and Cochin-China. 1895 Bull. Misc. Information (Royal Gardens, Kew) 139 Mr. de Bunsen, Her Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at Bangkok, was good enough to communicate to Kew specimens of the leaves of the Gamboge trees collected on the spot by Mr. Beckett. 1904 A. C. Carter Kingdom Siam 266 Gamboge grows only on the coast [of Siam]. 1952 A. F. Hill Econ. Bot. (ed. 2) v. 133 This yellow dye is obtained from a gum resin which is exuded from the Siamese gamboge tree (Garcinia Hanburyi) and allied species. 1982 Taxon 31 58 Such tropical plants as cardamom and gamboge..were cultivated profitably in India. 2004 M. Barwick Trop. & Subtropical Trees 196/1 (caption) Garcinia xanthochymus... Gamboge is a wide-spreading sp. with enormous, drooping lvs and globose, apple-sized, golden yellow fr. < as lemmas |
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