| 单词 | prickly moses |
| 释义 | > as lemmasprickly Moses prickly Moses n. [alteration of prickly mimosa (compare quot. 1965)] Australian any of several kinds of wattle of the genus Acacia with needle-like leaves, esp. A. verticillata, A. ulicifolia, and A. pulchella. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > acacia trees > [noun] acacia1542 babul1696 marblewood1753 black wattle1802 popinac1809 wattlec1810 wattle-treec1810 giraffe tree1815 haakdoring1822 hookthorn1822 kameeldoorn1822 camel-thorn1824 catechu-tree1829 silver wattle1832 blackthorn1833 thorny acacia1834 boobyalla1835 seyal1844 mulga1848 thorn-wood1850 hackthorn1857 mimosa1857 poison tree1857 Port Jackson1857 talha1857 golden wattle1859 whitethorn acacia1860 buffalo thorn1866 nelia1867 siris1874 cassie1876 couba1878 needlebush1884 sallow wattle1884 sally1884 giddea1885 prickly Moses1887 yarran1888 opopanax tree1889 wait-a-while1889 fever tree1893 giraffe acacia1896 stay-a-while1898 brigalow1901 wirra1904 cootamundra1909 Sydney golden wattle1909 witchetty bush1911 rooikrans1917 jam-tree1934 whistling thorn1949 blackthorn1966 1887 Australian Apr. 9/3 An expedition was now made into the scrub for fishing rods... I cannot recommend ‘snap-scrub’ for a rod, nor that awful thing which our philosopher called ‘prickly moses’. 1965 Austral. Encycl. VII. 276/1 Prickly Moses, a corruption of ‘prickly mimosa’ applied to several species of wattle. 1987 Woman's Day (Melbourne) 27 July 101/1 (caption) Prickly moses, a popular shrub wattle. < as lemmas |
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