| 单词 | rhododendron thicket |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrhododendron thicket General attributive (in sense 2), as rhododendron bush, rhododendron thicket, rhododendron tree, etc. ΚΠ 1812 W. Moorcroft Jrnl. 17 Sept. in Asiatick Researches (London ed.) (1818) 12 507 Rain increases to such a degree as to prevent us enjoying the pleasure of the shade of the horse-chesnut and rhododendron trees under which we pass. 1846 Spirit of Times (N.Y.) 9 May 131/3 [He] has now for sale fine large plants of his new Hardy Azaleas, and Rhododendron Hybrids. 1855 C. Kingsley Westward Ho! xix Through woods of wild plantain, and rhododendron thickets. 1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda I. ii. xiii. 242 Lightly whipping the rhododendron bush in front of her. 1903 W. Fox Little Shepherd ii The laurel blooms and rhododendron bells hung in thicker clusters and of a deeper pink. 1966 R. Morris & D. Morris Men & Pandas viii. 150 The bamboo belt gives way, higher up, to the rhododendron forest. 1987 E. Newby Round Ireland in Low Gear xi. 175 It was raining buckets, and..we had a miserable ride among what were now the funereal rhododendron thickets in the demesne of Dereen House. 2008 Independent 21 Mar. (Arts & Bks. Review section) 30/2 Rhododendron bushes burgeon, while the verticals of the red iron gates, and the shadows they cast, thicken the texture. < as lemmas |
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