单词 | needle-tree |
释义 | > as lemmasneedle-tree needle-tree n. a coniferous tree. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > conifers > [noun] > fir or pine woodc725 sapin1323 needle-tree1849 1849 E. C. Otté tr. A. von Humboldt Cosmos II. 455 In the needle-tree we have the greatest contraction of the leaf vessels. 1866 G. Stephens Old-Northern Runic Monuments I. i. 209 The stuff could scarcely be of birch, or of any other leaf-tree, but rather of a needle-tree. 1994 G. Bowering Shoot! iv. 47 In front of them were a hundred steep mountains covered with night-darkened needle trees. < as lemmas |
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