| 单词 | palmetto tree |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspalmetto tree palmetto tree n. an arborescent palmetto. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > palm trees > [noun] > palmetto trees or fan-palms palmite1555 palmetto1582 palmetto tree1582 talipot1681 tamarind-palmetto1698 Chamaerops1766 eta palm1769 cabbage palm tree1773 palmetto bush1784 swamp-cabbage1792 cabbage tree1796 saw palmetto1797 latania1799 hat palm1812 gebang1817 coco de mer?1820 itaa1832 cabbage palm1847 miriti1853 latania1856 moriche1860 broom-palm1866 ilala1868 licuala1872 fan-plant1884 tiger-grass1884 buri1890 latanier1929 Washingtonia1945 1582 in E. G. R. Taylor Troublesome Voy. Capt. E. Fenton (1959) 101 Seraliona is..full of Lymons, Palmitie trees. 1589 J. Sparke in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations iii. 526 Mats..made with the rine of Palmito trees. 1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Palma The Palmetto-Tree is brought from the West Indies, where it grows to be a very large Tree; the leaves of which the Inhabitants thatch their Houses withal. 1877 Scribner's Monthly July 283/2 A little search discovered him lying under a palmetto-tree, sleeping the sleep of the very drunk. 1986 B. Fussell I hear Amer. Cooking vi. xxv. 479 It was the Indians who taught the first settlers of Virginia the difference between ripe and unripe ‘putchamins’, which grew as high as palmetto trees. < as lemmas |
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