单词 | money bush |
释义 | money bushn. Caribbean. Any of several shrubby leguminous plants of the Caribbean area having leaves or seed-pods that are said to resemble coins: (a) a woody vine, Dalbergia monetaria (family Fabaceae ( Leguminosae)), with flat, nearly circular seed-pods (rare); (b) either of two shrubs of the family Caesalpiniaceae ( Leguminosae) having broadly obovate leaves, Cassia bicapsularis, with racemes of yellow flowers (also called monkey tamarind, Christmas bush), and Pithecellobium unguis-cati, with ball-like heads of cream-coloured flowers (also called bread and cheese). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > leguminous plants > [noun] > other leguminous plants peaseOE vetchc1400 hatchet vetch1548 mock liquorice1548 scorpion's tail1548 ax-fitch1562 ax-seed1562 axwort1562 treacle clover1562 lady's finger1575 bird's-foot1578 goat's rue1578 horseshoe1578 caterpillar1597 kidney-vetch1597 horseshoe-vetch1640 goat rue1657 kidney-fetch1671 galega1685 stanch1726 scorpion senna1731 Dolichos1753 Sophora1753 partridge pea1787 bauhinia1790 coronilla1793 swamp pea-tree1796 Mysore thorn1814 devil's shoestring1817 pencil flower1817 rattlebox1817 Canavalia1828 milk plant1830 joint-vetch1836 milk pea1843 prairie clover1857 oxytrope1858 rattleweed1864 wart-herb1864 snail-flower1866 poison pea1884 masu1900 money bush1924 Townsville stylo1970 orange bird's-foot2007 the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > climbing or creeping plants > non-British climbing or creeping plants > [noun] > American or West Indian water withy1559 West Indian China-root1577 savannah flower1696 water withe1696 Spanish woodbine1731 potato vine1750 Indian grass1753 seven-year vine1756 tropaeolum1759 woodbine1760 water vine1774 canariensis1835 Philodendron1840 Monstera1858 twig-climber1900 money bush1924 potato creeper1925 sweetheart plant1963 1924 Sci. Survey Porto Rico & Virgin Islands (N.Y. Acad. Sci.) V. 405 Securidaca volubilis... Banks, hillsides, and along streams at lower and middle elevations... Membrillo. Palo de Brasilete. Money-bush. 1944 Ecol. Monogr. 154 135 Money bush... Cassia bicapsularis L. 1969 S. M. Sadeek Windswept & Other Stories 2 The tiny crabs..twisted themselves between the roots of..wild mango and money-bush. 1993 S. Carrington Wild Plants Barbados 39/1 Senna bicapsularis (L.) Roxb. var. bicapsularis (Cassia bicapsularis L.)..Monkey tamarind, money bush. 1996 S. Carrington Wild Plants E. Caribbean 44/2 Pithecellobium unguis-cati..bread and cheese; beef steak; crab wood; money bush... Leaves alternate, of two pinnae, each of two lopsided, obovate or elliptic leaflets. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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