| 单词 | paradise tree |
| 释义 | > as lemmasparadise tree paradise tree n. (a) a tree supposedly growing in or associated with paradise; spec. the tree of life; cf. tree of Paradise n. at tree n. Compounds 3b; (b) any of several tropical trees, chiefly American, esp. a simaruba, Simarouba glauca, and the gumbo-limbo, Bursera simaruba. ΚΠ 1651 E. Davies Of Times & Seasons Pref. sig. A2v This Paradise Tree, this hidden Manna, consisting of Times Mystery and Seasons; breathed by the Father the breath of life. 1846 H. Smith Poet. Wks. 39 Then earth..thrill'd in her depths with a shudder profound, That wither'd each Paradise tree to its root, And shook down for ever and ever its fruit. 1890 Cent. Dict. 4274/3 Paradise-tree, a small American tree, Simaruba glauca, ranging from southern Florida to Brazil. 1908 N. L. Britton N. Amer. Trees 584 Gumbo Limbo, known also as Bitter-wood, Paradise tree, and on the Bahama islands as Ash, inhabits southern Florida, the Bahamas and Jamaica. 1914 J. D. Sawyer How to make Country Place iii. 88 In the background is the Paradise Tree or Tree of Heaven, the unfairly maligned though odorous root-spreading ailanthus. 1962 C. Day Lewis Compl. Poems (1992) The dancing fountains That leapt and wept for him like paradise trees In diamond leaf—he tainted them. 1993 J. V. O'Brien Transformation of Hera vi. 181 The motif of a Paradise tree, rare in Greek thought but common in Near Eastern myth, appears in a fragment of the Athenian mythographer Pherecydes, who describes ‘the garden of the gods.’ 2003 Chem. & Industry (Nexis) 2 June s4 I also hope to carry out some research on ‘Edible oil from Simarouba glauca (paradise tree) kernels.’ < as lemmas |
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