单词 | ieie |
释义 | ieien. A climbing screw-pine of the genus Freycinetia, esp. F. arborea, whose prop-roots yield a fibre. Cf. kie-kie n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > yielding fibre, thatching, or basket material > [noun] > trees or shrubs yielding fibre, etc. > other trees maqui1703 ieie1883 mengkuang1900 1883 C. F. G. Cumming Fire Fountains I. vii. 128 Vines without number, the most notable being one called the ié. 1903 R. C. L. Perkins in Fauna Hawaiiensis I. 400 All those [birds] that were utilised could readily be caught by a bait of flowers, excepting perhaps the Ou, and this bird probably not less easily on account of its fondness for the ripe Ieie. 1915 W. A. Bryan Nat. Hist. Hawaii xvi. 211 Another plant peculiar to the lower woods..is the ieie, a climbing shrub. 1970 S. Carlquist Hawaii xvii. 337 (caption) The flowers of the ieie are surrounded by short leaves bright orange in color. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1883 |
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