| 单词 | prickly box |
| 释义 | > as lemmasprickly box prickly box n. any of several spiny shrubs: †(a) butcher's broom, Ruscus aculeatus (obsolete); †(b) a shrub of the genus Lycium (family Solanaceae), also called box-thorn (obsolete); (c) Australian sweet bursaria, Bursaria spinosa (family Pittosporaceae). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > butcher's broom > [noun] knee-hollyc1000 butcher's broom1538 petigrew1538 horse-tongue1562 knee-holm1562 knee-hull1562 ruscus1562 double-tongue1578 prickly box1578 tongue-blade1578 ground-myrtle1601 uvularia1706 Alexandrian laurel1760 punnai1794 shepherd's myrtlec1840 Jew's myrtle1856 knee-hul- knee-hulver- 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball vi. xiii. 674 Butchers broome..is called..in base Almaigne, Stekende palme, that is to say, Prickley Boxe. 1597 J. Gerard Herball iii. xxv. 1151 It is named in Greeke πυχáκανθα, which a man may call in Latine Buxea spina: and in English, Boxe Thorne: of some, Asses Boxe Tree, and prickley Boxe. 1601 R. Chester Loves Martyr 90 Theres Sowbread, Stanwort, and Starre of Hierusalem, Base or flat Veruine, and the wholesome Tansie,..Bell rags, prickly Boxe, and Raspis of Couentry. 1792 J. Hamilton Culpeper's Eng. Family Physician I. 190 Prickly Box... It was from a decoction of the small branches, seeds, and roots of this tree, that the ancient physicians made their lycium. 1904 Emu 3 216 Found a Fire-tailed Finch's..nest just begun in a prickly box. 2000 Hobart Mercury (Austral.) (Nexis) 25 Nov. (Weekend section) 43 The basic rules are to provide thick shrubbery—like prickly box—to give birds shelter from predators. < as lemmas |
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