| 单词 | lace-tree |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslace-tree lace-tree n. now rare the lace bark of the West Indies, Lagetta lagetto (see lace bark n. (a)). ΚΠ 1740 P. Collinson Let. 10 Apr. in J. E. Smith Select. Corr. Linnæus & other Naturalists (1821) I. 6 I send you some English fossils, and the bark of the Lace-tree from Jamaica. 1827 T. Nuttall Introd. Systematic & Physiol. Bot. ii. iii. 260 The liber of some plants, for example the Daphne Lagetto (or Lace tree), when soaked in water and afterwards beaten, forms a very beautiful vegetable gauze; which may be used as an article of dress. 1950 H. T. Wilkins Secret Cities Old S. Amer. vii. 345 The lace-tree or lace-bark (Layetta lintearia), a West Indian and South American hymelæceous shrub, has interlacing fibres of bast. < as lemmas |
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