单词 | miombo |
释义 | miombon. Any of several trees of the genus Brachystegia (family Caesalpiniaceae ( Leguminosae)) of tropical Africa. Also: open woodland dominated by these and related trees, esp. in Tanzania. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > African trees or shrubs > [noun] > other African trees or shrubs keurboom1731 silver-tree1731 witteboom1799 Hottentot's bean1801 melkhouta1823 monkey apple1824 witgatboom1824 Hottentot's bean tree1833 spek-boom1834 mopane1854 Welwitschia1862 ambatch1863 miombo1864 pith tree1864 porkwood1875 tree purslane1882 buffalo-horn1887 monkey guava1887 bush willow1917 melkboom1917 msasa1923 rooibos1932 miraa1945 ovangkol1972 pigeon wood1972 tambotie1973 1864 J. A. Grant Walk across Afr. vi. 88 The wands from the Miombo, a kind of banyan, afford the natives the fibre which they attach to their wool. 1910 Encycl. Brit. XI. 772/2 The silk-cotton tree (Bombax ceiba), miomba, tamarisk, copal tree..are frequent [in German East Africa]. 1934 Jrnl. Ecol. 22 220 A strip of ‘Miombo’ through which a narrow, fairly shallow ravine..was running. 1948 Cape Argus 3 Dec. 5/4 Surrounded by uninhabited miombo bush. 1959 R. W. J. Keay in Vegetation Map Afr. Explanatory Notes 9/1 In these woodlands, commonly known by the vernacular name ‘myombo’, several species of Brachystegia..are dominant. 1966 C. A. W. Guggisberg S.O.S. Rhino iii. 53 Black rhinoceroses frequent savannah country, mopane and miombo forests, bushveld and dry thornbush. 1970 A. T. Semple Grassland Improvement i. 14 African farmers have found that their ground-water supplies improve when they extend their settlements in the ‘miombo’ (Brachystegia woodland). 1991 Jrnl. Refugee Stud. 4 251 Both sites..form part of the designated Ugalla game and forest reserves, composed of miombo (Brachystegia—Julbernadia) woodlands which are infested by the tsetse-fly. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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