| 单词 | ombú tree |
| 释义 | > as lemmasombú tree A large evergreen tree, Phytolacca dioica (family Phytolaccaceae), having a thick trunk with spreading buttresses at its base, native to South America and planted elsewhere as a shade tree. Also ombú tree. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > South American and West Indian trees or shrubs > [noun] > evergreens boldo1717 purple heart1738 ombú1839 pepper tree1848 velvet-seed1866 swizzle-stick tree1943 1839 C. Darwin in R. Fitzroy & C. Darwin Narr. Surv. Voy. H.M.S. Adventure & Beagle III. vi. 139 A solitary estancia, and its one ombu tree. 1871 R. O. Cunningham Notes Nat. Hist. Strait of Magellan xiv. 466 A variety of cottages, each shaded by the umbrageous foliage of the large Ombu. 1878 E. Clark Visit S. Amer. ix. 123 The gnarled ombus and willows, and poplars and peach trees, affording the welcome shade. 1902 W. H. Hudson El Ombú i. 2 They say..that those who sit much in the ombú shade become crazed. 1931 B. Miall tr. C. Guenther Naturalist in Brazil iv. 79 In the Argentine I have often admired the monumental character of one of the native trees, the Ombú. The roots rise from the ground like great brown bladders, lifting the trunk into the air, and from the trunk the branches spring like a tracery. 1961 G. Durrell Whispering Land i. 30 Small, neat estancias, gleaming white in the shade of huge, carunculated ombù trees, that stood massively and grimly on their enormous squat trunks. 1969 T. H. Everett Living Trees of World 144/1 The elliptic or ovate leaves of the ombú are evergreen and male and female flowers are on separate trees; the fruits are small and berry-like. 1988 S. Rushdie Satanic Verses iii. ii. 145 He pointed to the ocean... In some parts the wind is strong as a fist, but it's completely silent, it'll knock you flat but you'll never hear a thing. No trees is why: not an ombú, not a poplar, nada. < as lemmas |
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