单词 | nitre bush |
释义 | > as lemmasnitre bush nitre bush n. a plant of the genus Nitraria (family Zygophyllaceae), which comprises halophytic desert shrubs first found near Siberian nitre deposits. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > other shrubs > [noun] moorworteOE bean-trefoil1551 Osyris1562 bladder-nut1578 anagre1608 peasecod tree1611 firebush1639 Colutea1664 savin1697 houseleek-tree1732 Volkameria1753 Andromeda1760 bladder-senna1785 fringe-myrtle1866 thyrse-flower1866 eranthemum1882 nitre bush1884 ilima1888 1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants 93/2 Nitre-bush, Nitraria Billardieri, N. tridentata, and N. Schoberi. 1975 Jrnl. Ecol. 63 979 Pastoralists on the Riverine Plain have long observed emus..devouring nitre bush fruit when it is ripening during the late summer/early autumn. 1999 Encycl. Brit. Online (Version 99.1) at Takla Makan Desert On the edge of the desert, semipermanent, clustered sand dunes with tamarisk and nitre bushes..predominate. < as lemmas |
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