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单词 lecythid
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lecythidn.adj.

/ˈlɛsɪθɪd/
Etymology: < modern Latin family name Lecythidaceae , < the generic name Lecythis (P. Loefling Iter Hispanicum (1758) 189), < Greek λήκυθος a flask: see lecyth n.
A. n.
A tropical American tree of the family Lecythidaceæ.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > South American and West Indian trees or shrubs > [noun] > monkey-pot
sapucaia tree1820
monkey-pot1849
pot plant1858
sapucaia1869
lecythid1871
1871 C. Kingsley At Last II. xi. 118 Some other Lecythids..go by the name of monkey-pots.
B. adj.
Of or pertaining to a tree of this kind.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > South American and West Indian trees or shrubs > [adjective]
mora1825
lecythid1871
1871 C. Kingsley At Last II. xi. 113 The ground was strewn with large white flowers, whose peculiar shape told us at once of some other Lecythid tree high overhead.
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n.adj.1871
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