| 单词 | plantain tree |
| 释义 | > as lemmasplantain tree A plane tree, esp. Platanus orientalis. More fully plantain tree. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > plane-trees > [noun] platanusOE planea1382 platana1382 plane treea1425 platan treea1425 plantain1535 plane1562 dwarf plane tree1578 chenar1638 buttonwood1670 platanus tree1670 Norway maple1731 water beech1735 American plane1781 sycamore1814 buttonball1818 London plane1860 sycamore-tree1872 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ecclus. xxiv. 14 I am exalted like as a plantayne tre [L. platanus] by the water syde. 1553 J. Brende tr. Q. Curtius Rufus Hist. v. f. 80 The riuer was shadowed ouer wyth plantyne and pople trees [L. platani quoque et populi]. 1596 T. Lodge Wits Miserie 45 Pasiphae hee brought enamoured with a Bull, and Xerxes with a Plantaine tree. 1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 167 To Plantine-leaues [L. platani ramis] the Sparrow did her young commit. 1698 Modest Vindic. Oliver Cromwell 19 They made use of him as their Plantain Tree, whose spreading shade might secure 'em from the Swelter of Trouble and Danger. 1724 C. Gildon New Metamorphosis II. v. ix. 64 You may hide your self under yon tall Plantain Tree. 1736 T. Salmon Mod. Hist. XXVIII. ix. 327 A Stake is set up to support them, and Plantains and other Trees planted about them, because they thrive best in the Shade. 1791 W. Gilpin Remarks Forest Scenery I. 291 In Turkey it is common to see inferior buildings raised around the bole of a large plantain. 1843 G. Borrow Bible in Spain III. vii. 125 In the streets of Aranjuez, and beneath the mighty cedars and gigantic elms and plantains which compose its noble woods. 1982 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 21 Feb. x. 19/1 To the west, under a row of plantain trees, men and boys played boule from dawn to dusk. plantain tree plantain tree n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > tropical or exotic fruit-tree or -plant > banana tree > plantain tree platano1555 tree of Paradise1567 plantain tree1582 plantain1585 rose plantain1597 plane1604 mauz1681 Moko1911 1582 Exam. David Ingram in D. B. Quinn Voy. Humphrey Gilbert (1940) II. 281 There is a tre as he called it a planten tree, which of the leaves thereof beinge pressed will come a very excellent lycor. 1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World xii. 327 The ordinaty[sic] sort [of people in Mindanao] wear Cloth made of Plantain-tree, which they call Saggen; by which Name they call the Plantain. 1841 Times 3 Sept. 3/1 These prostitutes..affect Hindoo manners, on which account they abstain from all impure food, and, before the age of puberty, undergo the ceremony of marriage with a plantain tree. 2004 Manch. Guardian Weekly (Nexis) 4 June 11 The rushing flood waters cut wide swaths through the middle of food crops outside Jimani, destroying plantain trees, yucca and corn. < as lemmas |
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