| 单词 | irishman scrub |
| 释义 | > as lemmasIrishman scrub 4. New Zealand. More fully Irishman scrub. A prickly shrub, Discaria toumatou; = matagouri n. Cf. wild Irishman n. 2. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > thorn-tree or -bush > [noun] > non-British varieties fingrigo1707 cockspura1726 thorny trefoil1760 narra1779 driedoring1824 wild Irishman1850 matagouric1857 tumata-kuru1859 Irishman1860 Jerusalem thorn1866 nabk1874 ilb1894 1860 S. Butler in H. F. Jones Samuel Butler (1919) I. 80 There is a large quantity of Irishman (the name given to a thorny shrub which, in the back country, attains to a considerable size)... A glorious lurid flare marks the ignition of an Irishman. 1891 G. E. Mannering With Axe & Rope in N.Z. Alps iv. 84 We lost no time in pressing on to a patch of Irishman scrub a mile or so below the terminal face of the glacier. 1953 B. Stronach Musterer on Molesworth 38 Our camp was in a small bay surrounded by..very big matagouris or Irishman, some more than a foot through. 1966 G. W. Turner Eng. Lang. in Austral. & N.Z. viii. 168 The shrub matogowrie, called Irishman in early writings, is especially common in the South Island where Maori influence is least strong and anglicization is most likely. < as lemmas |
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