| 单词 | giant nettle-tree |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgiant nettle-tree 2. Australian. Any of several Australian trees and shrubs constituting the genus Dendrocnide (family Urticaceae), characterized by the presence of virulent stinging hairs; esp. (a) (more fully giant nettle-tree) D. excelsa, a tall tree of tropical rainforest; (b) the gympie, D. moroides, an evergreen shrub. Also called nettle (see nettle n. 1c), stinging tree. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > Australasian trees > [noun] > nettle-tree or gympie nettle-tree1827 nettle1836 gympie1895 1827 P. Cunningham Two Years New S. Wales I. 201 The nettle-tree will tell you at once by the touch whence comes its designation. 1849 J. P. Townsend Rambles in New S. Wales 34 In the scrubs is found a tree, commonly called ‘the nettle tree’ (Urtica gigas). 1886 F. Cowan Australia 16 The Giant Nettle-tree: a hive of bees in every leaf. 1911 W. R. Guilfoyle Austral. Plants 233 Laportea moroides ‘Gympie Nettle Tree’ or ‘Mulberry Nettle Tree’ (evergreen shrub, reputed poisonous and injurious to stock, 15 to 20 ft.). 1965 Austral. Encycl. VI. 269/1 Nettle-trees or stinging-trees..are species of Laportea which have extremely virulent leaf-hairs. < as lemmas |
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