单词 | murraya |
释义 | Murrayan. Botany. A small genus of trees and shrubs (family Rutaceae) native to Asia and Australia and cultivated elsewhere, chiefly for their fragrant flowers or foliage; (also murraya) a tree or shrub of this genus, esp. orange jasmine or mock orange, Murraya paniculata, and the curry leaf tree, M. koenigii.Valid publication of the genus name: Linnaeus Mantissa Plantarum (ed. 2, 1771) 554. Murraya is a nomen conservandum. ΚΠ 1819 Bot. Reg 5 434 (heading) Murraya exotica. Ash-leaved murraya. Chinese box-tree. 1832 W. Roxburgh et al. Flora Indica (new ed.) II. 381 It [sc. Limonia scaudens]..seems to associate best with Limonia, Murraya, and Triphasia. 1873 R. Bentley Man. Bot. (ed. 3) ii. iii. 466 Murraya... The bark, root, and leaves are employed by the native practitioners in India for their tonic and stomachic properties. 1938 H. J. Quayle Insects of Citrus 291 In Formosa it [sc. the scale Pulvinaria polygonata] occurs on citrus and murraya. 1951 Dict. Gardening (Royal Hort. Soc.) III. 1327/1 The Murrayas may be grown in heat in a compost of turfy loam and peat. 1965 Austral. Encycl. VI. 210/2 Murraya, a small genus of shrubs in the family Rutaceae... They are characterized by simply pinnate leaves, white pleasantly-scented flowers like orange blossom, and small red berries. 1990 Sunday Sun (Brisbane) 28 Jan. (Suppl.) 44/3 Murrayas are commonly called mock orange because their flowers smell like orange blossoms. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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