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单词 picture-tree
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picture-tree
picture-tree n. Obsolete an arborescent plant of the genus Acalypha (family Euphorbiaceae) having markings on the leaves suggestive of pictures.
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1885 A. Brassey In Trades viii. 145 On the plantation, as in Trinidad generally, the acalypha seemed to flourish in a marvellous manner... One variety, which bears green leaves, with yellow and white markings, is called the ‘geographical-tree’, or sometimes the ‘picture-tree’, because it is said to be always possible to trace in imagination a map or a picture upon the surface of each leaf.
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