| 单词 | prickly yellow |
| 释义 | > as lemmasprickly yellow prickly yellow n. Caribbean any of several Caribbean trees of the genus Zanthoxylum, with spiny stems and yellow wood; esp. the yellow Hercules' club Z. caribaeum; the wood of any of these trees; cf. prickly yellowwood n., prickle-yellow n. at prickle n.1 Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1837 J. Macfadyen Flora Jamaica I. 194 Prickly Yellow... This is a valuable timber tree: the wood is yellow, and used in house building. 1926 Times 27 Oct. 17/5 Countless thousands of the August flight are annual migrants from the Bahamas, which come to feed on the prickly yellow and other berries of the Jamaican hills. 1951 Daily Gleaner (Kingston) 16 Aug. 3/1 Other types being brought into service are pearwood, prickly yellow, and light woods strong enough to work as a substitute [for cedar]. < as lemmas |
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