| 单词 | india rubber vine |
| 释义 | > as lemmasIndia rubber vine a. With the sense ‘yielding India rubber’, as India rubber plant, India rubber tree, India rubber vine, etc.The name India rubber tree is sometimes used to refer specifically to Ficus elastica (cf. Indian rubber tree n. at Indian rubber n. Compounds 2). ΚΠ 1815 F. P. Chaumeton Flore Médicale II. Pl. 93 Anglais India-Rubber Tree. 1854 J. D. Hooker Himalayan Jrnls. I. 143 The India-rubber fig..occurs in the deepest and hottest valleys. 1858 Cottage Gardener 14 Dec. 170/2 The shoots of a fine India-rubber plant. 1883 D. Morris Colony Brit. Honduras 74 Next to cacao, the most interesting plant found wild in the forests of British Honduras is the indiarubber-tree, called by the natives ‘Toonu’. 1887 C. A. Moloney Sketch Forestry W. Afr. 87 The destruction of enormous tracts of india-rubber forest. 1905 H. W. Wack Story Congo Free State xxvi. 295 For extending agriculture and replanting India-rubber vines the sum of 1,373,932 francs was expended in 1903. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) II. 1453 Ficus elastica, the india-rubber tree,..was the commonest rubber-producing tree in India, but it is of little importance now. 1948 G. D. H. Bell Cultivated Plants Farm xvii. 167 Useful cultivated plants of such diverse kind as the hemp, mulberry, fig, indiarubber fig and bread fruit. 1974 S. Clapham Greenhouse Bk. xv. 148 Ficus Several species in this Fig family have become popular as house plants, notably the Indiarubber Plant Ficus elastica.. 1996 Chiltern Seeds Catal. Introd. p. i The India Rubber Plant, Ficus elastica, is singularly unsuited for indoor cultivation, being a large tree reaching over 100 ft. in height. < as lemmas |
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