| 单词 | mountain ebony |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmountain ebony mountain ebony n. any of several trees of the genus Bauhinia (family Caesalpiniaceae ( Leguminosae)), esp. the Asian B. variegata and the Australian B. hookeri (also mountain ebony tree); (also) the dark, hard wood of any of these trees. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > non-British timber trees > [noun] > tropical mountain ebony1696 pigeon wood?1740 beef-wood1756 zebrawood1768 satinwood1773 afzelia1798 1696 H. Sloane Catal. Plantarum in Jamaica 150 Mountain ebony. 1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. ii. 287 Bauhinia... Mountain Ebeny. 1898 E. E. Morris Austral Eng. 134/1 Both [Bauhinia Carronii and B. Hookeri] are called Queensland or Mountain Ebony. 1939 Florida: Guide to Southernmost State (Federal Writers' Project) iii. 367 Several of the principal thoroughfares are bordered with mountain-ebony trees. 1994 M. Griffiths Index Garden Plants 130/2 B[auhinia] variegata L. Orchid tree; mountain ebony. < as lemmas |
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