| 单词 | shoe-flower |
| 释义 | > as lemmasshoe-flower shoe-flower n. Anglo-Indian the flower of the Hibiscus Rosasinensis (Yule). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > cultivated or ornamental trees and shrubs > [noun] > China-rose China-rose1731 Martinique rose1797 shoe-flower1814 shoeblack1837 1814 J. Lunan Hortus Jamaicensis I. 176 They are also put to a use which seems little consistent with their elegance and beauty, that of blacking shoes, whence their names of rosæ calceolariæ and shoe-flower. 1834 G. Bennett Wanderings New S. Wales II. x. 203 The Malays use the flowers of this shrub for cleansing shoes... This is probably the cause of its being called the shoe-flower. < as lemmas |
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