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单词 ocotillo
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ocotillon.

Brit. /əʊkəˈtɪl(j)əʊ/, /əʊkəˈtiː(j)əʊ/, U.S. /ˌoʊkəˈti(j)oʊ/
Forms: 1800s ocetilla, 1800s ocochilla, 1800s– ocotilla, 1800s– ocotillo.
Origin: A borrowing from Spanish. Etymon: Spanish ocotillo.
Etymology: < American Spanish ocotillo < ocote ocote n. + -illo , diminutive suffix (compare -illa suffix).
A desert shrub, Fouquieria splendens (family Fouquieriaceae), native to Mexico and the south-western U.S. and bearing inconspicuous leaves and panicles of scarlet flowers on stiff, spiny stems; (also) the stems of this plant. Frequently attributive.
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1856 Wide West (San Francisco) Oct. (Suppl.) 2/5 Aside from the grass, there is a shrub called the Diondillia, the Ocetilla, the Choya, [etc.].
1859 W. H. Emory Rep. U.S. & Mexican Boundary Surv. II. 103 Moquinia hypoleuca... This is No. 1391 and 2358 of Berlandier's collection, who records its vernacular name as ‘Ocotillo’.
1864 Harper's Mag. Nov. 697/2 Passing through some dense thickets of mesquit and ocochilla, the struggling family found themselves at the foot of a rocky bluff.
1883 Harper's Mag. Mar. 491/1 The houses consist of a frame-work of cottonwood or ocotilla wattles.
1893 Nation (N.Y.) 7 Sept. 169/3 Walking-sticks made of the porous ocotillo cactus.
1915 Standard Cycl. Hort. III. 1271/1 Ocotillo..is a conspicuous object in the deserts from Texas westward,..the rod-like stiff canes looking like lifeless sticks in dry weather and in its season crowned with masses of showy bloom.
1948 Nat. Hist. Apr. 181 The Ocotillo is frankly red, adding its flaming tips to every dry stick that looked dead a week ago.
1966 Mrs. L. B. Johnson White House Diary 3 Apr. (1970) 381 The ocotillo..looks like about a dozen long coach whips stuck into the ground, spraying out in a weeping fashion.
1994 N.Y. Times 27 Nov. v. 13/5 We began in pinto-bean fields and hills covered with prickly pears and ocotilla plants that look like thorny cat-o-nine tails.
2001 Nature Photographer Summer 19/1 Other flowers in the park include ocotillo, an unusual but beautiful herbaceous plant that is rather common.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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