| 单词 | rice-paper plant |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrice-paper plant rice-paper plant n. any of various plants from which rice paper (sense A. 1) is or was thought to have been made; spec. †(a) the aquatic plant sola, Aeschynomene aspera, of tropical Asia (obsolete); (b) (more fully Chinese rice-paper plant) the shrub Tetrapanax papyrifer (family Araliaceae), of southern China; (c) (in full Malay rice-paper plant) the tropical Asian plant Scaevola sericea (family Goodeniaceae), which has pith similar to that of Tetrapanax papyrifer (now rare). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > yielding fibre, thatching, or basket material > [noun] > sola rice-paper plant1832 shola1836 sola1844 solar1859 the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > non-British shrubs > [noun] > Asian Japan allspice1789 ramie1817 kaffir lime1824 luculia1826 rice-paper plant1832 pith plant1834 chimonanthus1836 jiti1836 rhea1837 leycesteria1838 wintersweet1846 crape-myrtle1850 skimmia1853 China-grass1858 taccada1866 saxaul1874 white kerria1900 sarcococca1914 1832 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. i. ii. 61 As in the Horse Chestnut, the Rice-paper plant, and many others. 1849 J. H. Balfour Man. Bot. 40 In the Rice-paper plant, a species of Æschynomene, the interior of the stem is occupied almost entirely by cellular tissue. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 983/2 Rice-paper-plant, Malay, Scævola Taccada. 1876 Encycl. Brit. IV. 100/2 Æschynomene aspera (Shola plant, the Rice-paper plant of India). 1882 Garden Apr. 236/3 There is a wide ascending pathway, edged with Rice-paper plants. 1900 W. Robinson Eng. Flower Garden (ed. 8) 432/2 A[ralia] papyrifera (Chinese Rice-paper plant), though a native of the hot island of Formosa, is useful for the greenhouse in winter and the flower garden in summer. 1961 Econ. Bot. 15 165/2 This letter..apparently never came to the attention of the 19th century botanists who were concerned with the identity of the rice-paper plant. 1996 Chiltern Seeds Catal. 103 Rice Paper Plant. This is a handsome, useful and interesting plant—as a house plant it will be much admired for its magnificent felt-covered leaves, orange-green when young and whitish-green when mature. < as lemmas |
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