单词 | pea-bush |
释义 | > as lemmaspea-bush pea-bush n. †(a) Obsolete. rare, a cultivated pea plant ( Pisum sativum); (b) any of various Australian leguminous shrubs, esp. of the genus Sesbania (family Fabaceae ( Leguminosae)). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > non-British shrubs > [noun] > Australasian banksia1787 waratah1793 honeysuckle1803 pinkwood1824 honeysuckle tree1825 rose1825 blue bush1828 dogwood1828 parrotbill1829 tulip-tree1830 whitebeard1832 swamp-oak1833 bauera1835 mungitec1837 bottlebrush1839 clianthus1841 glory-pea1848 boronia1852 koromiko1855 pituri1861 Sturt's pea1865 scrub vine1866 pea-bush1867 cotton-bush1876 Australian honeysuckle1881 peach myrtle1882 saloop bush1884 naupaka1888 dog rose1896 native tulip1898 snow bush1909 wedding-bush1923 Hebe1961 mountain pepper1965 1867 S. Hayden Washington & his Masonic Compeers 17 In the garden, where he often amused himself hacking his mother's pea-bushes, he unluckily tried the edge of his hatchet on the body of a beautiful young English cherry-tree. 1881 T. Archer Remarks proposed Queensland Trans-Continental Railway 18 The pea-bush, a species of sesbania, also found abundantly on the flooded flats of the Gilbert, growing in patches, or more open scrubs, to a height of from ten to fifteen feet. 1981 A. B. Cribb & J. W. Cribb Useful Wild Plants Austral. 207 Sestania benthamiana (S. aculeata) Sesbania Pea, Pea-bush... The dried stems were used by the Aborigines as drills for making fire. < as lemmas |
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