单词 | gympie nettle |
释义 | > as lemmasgympie nettle c. = nettle-tree n. 2. Chiefly with distinguishing word, as giant nettle (= giant nettle-tree at nettle-tree n. 2(a)), gympie nettle (= gympie n.). 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 1836 J. Backhouse Narr. Visit Austral. Colonies (1843) 363 In the forests, the Giant nettle, Urtica gigas, forms a large tree. 1837 Colonist (Sydney) 350/1 The nettle is a lofty tree, and the poplar a dwarfish shrub. 1889 J. H. Maiden Useful Native Plants Austral. 192 Laportea gigas..‘Giant Nettle’. The poisonous fluid secreted from the foliage is very powerful. 1908 S. W. Jackson Field Trip Notebk. 92 in Austral. Nat. Dict. (1988) at Gympie I saw ‘the Gympies’ growing all up the mountain side today. It is a nettle that grows about 12 feet high. a1917 W. J. Courthope Country Town (1920) 54 The gum-tree towers above; the giant nettles bloom. 1968 L. Braden Bullockies 85 Gympie Nettles, with their big prickly leaves; stings ache for hours—and sometimes days, and it is just agony every time you wash yourself in cold water. 1987 Jrnl. Biogeogr. 14 598/1 Traditional cottage industries, of weaving..and producing hard-wearing fabrics from the fibres of the giant nettle. < as lemmas |
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