| 单词 | milkwood-tree |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmilkwood-tree milkwood-tree n. = sense 1. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > South American and West Indian trees or shrubs > [noun] > others persea1601 mahoe1666 poison berry1672 white mangrove1683 maiden plum1696 angelin1704 garlic-pear1725 milkwood-tree1725 Jack-in-the-box1735 cherimoya1736 rattle bush1750 galapee1756 genip1756 lace bark1756 sunfruit1787 wild orange1802 hog-nut1814 mountain pride1814 savannah wattle1814 mora1825 rubber tree1826 mayflower1837 bastard manchineel1838 long john1838 seringa1847 sack tree1849 jumbie tree1860 jumbie bean1862 king-tree1863 gauze-tree1864 mountain green1864 snowdrop tree1864 strong bark1864 switch-sorrel1864 candle-tree1866 maypole1866 angelique1873 poisonwood1884 porkwood1884 1725 H. Sloane Voy. Islands II. 21 Milk-wood Tree. The bark of this tree being deeply gash'd yields a great quantity of milk. 1887 H. W. Daly Digging, Squatting, & Pioneering Life S. Austral. 43 Ironbark trees, casuarinas, and the bright green milkwood tree grew here. 1908 E. J. Banfield Confessions of Beachcomber i. i. 37 On Timana are gigantic milkwood trees (Alstonia scholaris) which need great flying buttresses to support their immense height. 1928 D. Cottrell Singing Gold III. i. 191 A thin ribbon of smoke showed against great milkwood trees. 1946 L. G. Green So Few are Free (1948) x. 137 Vaillant noted a large milkwood tree growing out of a rocky crevice. 1973 E. Palmer & N. Pitman Trees Southern Afr. III. 1737 The wooden rails of the little railway on the Durban Bluff in the early days..were hewn out of milkwood trees. 1987 S. Afr. Panorama Nov. 38/1 Although doubt exists as to just where the first letters were left by the Portuguese for returning ships' captains, it is generally accepted that it was somewhere within the branches of a vast sprawling milkwood tree generally known as the ‘Post Office Tree’. < as lemmas |
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