| 单词 | harpuisbos | 
| 释义 | harpuisbosn.  An evergreen shrub belonging to the genus  Euryops, esp. the resin-bush,  E. multifidus. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular tree or plant yielding useful gum or resin > 			[noun]		 > African rosin tree1577 harpuisbos1811 resin bush1822 bumbo1839 1793    C. R. Hopson tr.  C. P. Thunberg Trav. I. 211  				A species of Coccus, called Harpuys, that was found on the branches of trees, was said to prove mortal to sheep.]			 1811    W. J. Burchell Trav. Interior S. Afr. 		(1822)	 I. xii. 259  				The inhabitants of this district, when in want of resin, use as a substitute, a gum which exudes from different species of shrubs; which they therefore call Harpuis bosch (Resin bush). 1815    A. Plumptre tr.  H. Lichtenstein Trav. S. Afr. II. 176  				A shrub, which grows from two feet to three feet and a half high, called by the colonists harpuisbosjes, the rosin tree. 1846    H. H. Methuen Life in Wilderness 112  				We again were in danger of being burnt; a sea of flame raging on one side of the road, and consuming the resinous arpuse bushes with a roaring noise, audible a long way off. 1912    East London Daily Dispatch 		(S. Afr.)	 22 Aug. 5  				Mr. Moffatt (Tarka) brought up the question of the noxious rapuis which had hitherto baffled their efforts.]			 1926    O. Schreiner From Man to Man xi. 353  				They burnt harpuis bushes on the lands at home. 1952    Cape Argus 1 Nov. (Mag.) 1/7  				The yellow of the harpuisbos. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2020). <  | 
	
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