英语词汇“black boy tree”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

2. An Australian grass tree of the genus Xanthorrhoea (family Xanthorrhoeaceae), having a thick dark trunk and long grass-like leaves (also black boy tree); esp. Xanthorrhoea preissii of south-western areas. Also: a resin obtained from these plants.The name is now often considered offensive.

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1833 in J. Cross Jrnls. Exped. West. Austral. 111 The black boys, growing in the country we had hitherto passed over, were the underground ones, the rushes of which are not brittle.

1840 J. Pereira Elements Materia Medica ii. 658 A red resin, probably from X. arborea.., has been recently imported under the name of black-boy gum.

1846 J. L. Stokes Discov. Austral. II. 380 These trees, called Blackboys by the colonists, from the resemblance they bear, in the distance, to natives.

1898 Pop. Sci. News Aug. 178/1 It is plastered over with a kind of sticky wax called ‘blackboy’, which when dry imparts considerable rigidity to the implement.

1912 H. E. Potts Chem. Rubber Industry ii. 45 Wallace has a patent for the production of isoprene by the dry distillation of the bark of the black-boy tree of Australia.

1956 S. Hope Diggers' Paradise 59 The ‘blackboys’ several times taller than a man with twisted coal-black stems crowned by massive raffia-like tufts in green and white.

2004 Newcastle (Austral.) Herald (Nexis) 9 Oct. (Weekender) 16 Tree ferns planted among the boulders give the dam's structure and soften the landscape where bridges and stone features are highlighted by grass trees (Blackboys).

单词	black boy tree
释义	> as lemmas black boy tree 2. An Australian grass tree of the genus Xanthorrhoea (family Xanthorrhoeaceae), having a thick dark trunk and long grass-like leaves (also black boy tree); esp. Xanthorrhoea preissii of south-western areas. Also: a resin obtained from these plants.The name is now often considered offensive. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > Australasian trees > [noun] > grass-trees grass tree1792 black boy1833 neinei1838 grass tree1843 xanthorrhœa1868 1833 in J. Cross Jrnls. Exped. West. Austral. 111 The black boys, growing in the country we had hitherto passed over, were the underground ones, the rushes of which are not brittle. 1840 J. Pereira Elements Materia Medica ii. 658 A red resin, probably from X. arborea.., has been recently imported under the name of black-boy gum. 1846 J. L. Stokes Discov. Austral. II. 380 These trees, called Blackboys by the colonists, from the resemblance they bear, in the distance, to natives. 1898 Pop. Sci. News Aug. 178/1 It is plastered over with a kind of sticky wax called ‘blackboy’, which when dry imparts considerable rigidity to the implement. 1912 H. E. Potts Chem. Rubber Industry ii. 45 Wallace has a patent for the production of isoprene by the dry distillation of the bark of the black-boy tree of Australia. 1956 S. Hope Diggers' Paradise 59 The ‘blackboys’ several times taller than a man with twisted coal-black stems crowned by massive raffia-like tufts in green and white. 2004 Newcastle (Austral.) Herald (Nexis) 9 Oct. (Weekender) 16 Tree ferns planted among the boulders give the dam's structure and soften the landscape where bridges and stone features are highlighted by grass trees (Blackboys). extracted from black boyn. < as lemmas
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