单词 | golden chain |
释义 | > as lemmasgolden chain golden chain n. (more fully golden chain tree) any of the small trees of the genus Laburnum, which have pendulous racemes of yellow flowers (see laburnum n. 1). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > laburnum > [noun] laburnum1567 awber1684 Scotch laburnum1776 pea tree1822 golden chain1825 gold chain1841 false ebony1892 1794 R. P. Knight Landscape iii. 62 The bright acacia, and the vivid plane, The rich laburnum with its golden chain.] 1825 H. Smith Gaieties & Gravities I. 19 A few cartloads of citizen's bones gave me a luxuriant growth of London pride, plums, Sibthorpia or base money-wort, mud-wort, bladder-wort, and mushrooms; but for laburnum or golden chain I was obliged to select a lord mayor. 1913 Garden Mag. Jan. 266/3 The common laburnum is the Cytisus Laburnum of Linnaeus and has the popular names of golden chain and bean-tree. 2007 S. E. Griest 100 Places Every Woman Should Go lxxvii 240 If visiting in May, drive seven miles south to the Bodnant Garden for the blossoming of its yellow laburnums (a.k.a. golden chain trees). < as lemmas |
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