| 单词 | red bottle-brush |
| 释义 | > as lemmasred bottle-brush red bottle-brush n. any of several Australian bottle-brushes of the genus Callistemon, esp. C. speciosus, which has spiked flowers with conspicuous long red stamens and is often grown as an ornamental shrub in warm countries. ΚΠ 1889 J. H. Maiden Useful Native Plants Austral. 389 ‘Red Bottle-brush’. (The flowers of some species of Callistemon are like bottle-brushes in shape.) 1946 A. P. Benthall Trees of Calcutta 249 Callistemon lanceolatus..red bottle-brush, mountain rata... The bright red, drooping spikes of flowers are handsome. 2005 San Diego Union-Tribune (Nexis) 16 Oct. i21 The aptly named red bottlebrush (Callistemon speciosus) with its flower spikes of ‘bristly’ stamens is but one example... It is said that more grow in California than in all of Australia. < as lemmas |
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