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单词 nandina
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Nandinan.

Brit. /nanˈdiːnə/, /nanˈdʌɪnə/, U.S. /nænˈdinə/
Inflections: Plural Nandinas, unchanged.
Forms: also with lower-case initial.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin Nandina.
Etymology: < scientific Latin Nandina, genus name (C. P. Thunberg Nova Genera Plantarum (1781) i. 14) < Japanese †nandin (1712 in E. Kæmpfer Amœnitatum Exoticarum), variant of nanten (see nanten n.) + -a suffix1; compare -ina suffix.The sequence -di- is not usual in Japanese; Kæmpfer perhaps heard a Japanese form *nanden containing a raised /e/ which he transcribed with i . Kæmpfer's etymon is cited by Thunberg and some later botanical writers (see, e.g., quot. 1852) and may partly be the basis for the English form nandin n.
A monotypic genus of shrubs of the family Berberidaceae, characterized by bipinnate leaves, panicles of small white flowers, and red or purple berries; (also nandina) the shrub belonging to this genus, Nandina domestica, native to eastern Asia from India to Japan and cultivated elsewhere for its ornamental bamboo-like foliage (also called celestial bamboo, heavenly bamboo, sacred bamboo).
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ambrosieOE
minced pie1739
Christmas bush1750
black-gum1785
Nandina1787
allamanda1789
restio1796
moutan1808
tree peony1811
snowberry1815
aucuba1819
zamang1819
Deutzia1837
ground-jasmine1848
nandin1866
heavenly bamboo1871
spathodea1873
Escallonia1882
nanten1884
o-matsu1916
Japanese pagoda tree1924
dove tree1933
1787 R. W. Darwin Principia Botanica Add. 158 Corols six-petal'd, or six-cleft. Nandina,..Japan.
1793 C. R. Hopson tr. C. P. Thunberg Trav. III. 111 I also found here [sc. in Kokura] a tree, which is called Aukuba, and another called Nandina, both which were supposed to bring good fortune to the house.
1836 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Plants (rev. ed.) 286 Nandina domestica... Garden Nandina... China.
1852 G. W. Johnson Cottage Gardeners' Dict. 628/1 Nandina (From nandin, the Japanese name)... Greenhouse shrub.
1881 P. Henderson Handbk. Plants 142/2 Nandina... It was introduced to cultivation in 1804.
1915 E. Phillpotts My Shrubs ix. 83 In prosperity this Nandina, of Japan, makes a very beautiful specimen.
1962 Amateur Gardening 13 Jan. 15 All through the summer the leaves of nandina change from beetroot to green to purple as they age.
1988 Washington Post 31 July f2/2 At the moment there is just the varied greenery of box and sweet olives, small hollies, barrenworts, nandina, azaleas, bugleweed and so on.
1992 H. Mitchell One Man's Garden ix. 177 A tiny black locust had sprouted in a clump of nandinas.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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