| 单词 | opossum wood |
| 释义 | > as lemmasopossum wood opossum wood n. (a) U.S. the snowdrop tree, Halesia tetraptera; (b) an Australian rainforest tree, Quintinia sieberi (family Saxifragaceae). ΚΠ 1897 G. B. Sudworth Nomencl. Arborescent Flora U.S. 323 Mohrodendron carolinum... Opossum-wood. 1947 R. H. Anderson Trees New S. Wales (ed. 2) 218 In addition to the Opossum Wood and the Featherwood there are four related species belonging to the same family (Escalloniaceae). 1965 Austral. Encycl. VI. 406/2 Opossum-wood, the usual name for a small eastern rain-forest tree, Quintinia sieberi... The name is supposed to have originated among bushmen, who..likened the peculiar scars in the bark to scars left by the claws of possums. 1987 D. J. Mabberley Plant-bk. 261 Halesia... Cult. orn. decid. shrubs (bell trees) esp. H. tetraptera Ellis (‘H. carolina’, EUS)—snowdrop tree, silver bell, opossumwood, with white drooping flowers. < as lemmas |
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