| 单词 | heaven-tree |
| 释义 | > as lemmasheaven-tree heaven-tree n. [in sense (a) after Malay kayu langit, (Ambonese) ai lanit tree reaching to the sky, lit. ‘sky tree’ (see ailanthus n.); quot. 1865 (compare sense (b)) apparently refers to a myth recounted in G. Turner Nineteen Years in Polynesia (1861) 246, but Turner does not use the expression heaven-tree] (a) Botany a tree of the genus Ailanthus, esp. Ailanthus altissima; a tree of heaven (cf. ailanthus n.); (b) Cultural Anthropology a mythical tree growing from the underworld, through the earth, and up to heaven, which figures in some Malay and Polynesian beliefs (rare). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > unidentified or variously identified > [noun] > mythical or biblical almug1539 teil1568 goose-tree1597 cerbas1605 heaven-tree1835 heaven-plant1865 the world > the supernatural > deity > heaven > [noun] > tree of life > in non-Christian heaven tuba1817 heaven-tree1835 heaven-plant1865 1835 R. H. Budd Compl. Pract. Farmer iii. 241 Alianthus glandulosus [sic], the heaven tree of the Chinese, is a fine stately tree, and though introduced from a warmer climate, bears the intense cold of our winters perfectly uninjured. 1865 E. B. Tylor Res. Early Hist. Mankind 348 In the Samoan group..there was a heaven-tree, where people went up and down, and when it fell it stretched some sixty miles. 1916 H. B. Alexander in L. H. Gray et al. Mythol. of all Races X. iii. 35 He directed her to take a certain journey through the heaven realm of Chief He-Holds-the-Earth, whom she was to marry, and beside whose lodge grew the great heaven tree. 1940 K. A. Porter Flowering Judas 110 The bouginvillea climbing up the wall and the heaven tree in full bloom. 1997 Independent (Nexis) 15 Apr. 11 A further derelict room contains the sectioned trunk of a heaven tree in bud, complete with pigeon's nest and eggs. < as lemmas |
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