| 单词 | monkey's dinner bell |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmonkey's dinner bell monkey's dinner bell n. (also monkey dinner bell) the sandbox tree, Hura crepitans, whose capsule explodes with a loud report. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > South American and West Indian trees or shrubs > [noun] > sand-box sandbox1750 sand-hooker tree1796 monkey's dinner bell1849 1849 J. H. Balfour Man. Bot. § 1018 The juice of Hura crepitans, Sandbox-tree, or Monkey's dinner-bell, is also very acrid. 1978 A. J. Huxley Plant & Planet (rev. ed.) xv. 185 One of the noisiest seed-distributors is Hura crepitans,..sometimes called the Sandbox Tree or Monkey Dinner-bell. 1995 D. Attenborough Private Life of Plants i. 16 The most dramatic of such detonating seed-containers belongs to a Brazilian tree. Its botanical name is Hura, but it is sometimes engagingly known as monkey's dinner-bell. < as lemmas |
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