| 单词 | black wattle |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblack wattle black wattle n. either of two Australian acacias, Acacia binervata, and (now usually) A. mearnsii, which is native to southern Australia but widely grown elsewhere, chiefly as a source of tannin and timber or to prevent soil erosion, in some cases becoming an invasive weed. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > acacia trees > [noun] acacia1542 babul1696 marblewood1753 black wattle1802 popinac1809 wattlec1810 wattle-treec1810 giraffe tree1815 haakdoring1822 hookthorn1822 kameeldoorn1822 camel-thorn1824 catechu-tree1829 silver wattle1832 blackthorn1833 thorny acacia1834 boobyalla1835 seyal1844 mulga1848 thorn-wood1850 hackthorn1857 mimosa1857 poison tree1857 Port Jackson1857 talha1857 golden wattle1859 whitethorn acacia1860 buffalo thorn1866 nelia1867 siris1874 cassie1876 couba1878 needlebush1884 sallow wattle1884 sally1884 giddea1885 prickly Moses1887 yarran1888 opopanax tree1889 wait-a-while1889 fever tree1893 giraffe acacia1896 stay-a-while1898 brigalow1901 wirra1904 cootamundra1909 Sydney golden wattle1909 witchetty bush1911 rooikrans1917 jam-tree1934 whistling thorn1949 blackthorn1966 1802 D. Collins Acct. Eng. Colony New S. Wales II. ix. 88 A similar timber was called the Black Wattle. 1863 Technologist 3 5 The gum of the black wattle (Acacia mollissima, Willd.)..is very inferior to it [sc. that of the silver wattle]. 1955 P. White Tree of Man 206 Sometimes in stormy weather gulls came..and glided and dipped above the black wattles. 2006 S. Unwin S. Afr. Wildlife (rev. ed.) 26 Another significant threat comes from the steady advance of invasive alien plants, such as the Australian black wattle (Acacia mearnsii). < as lemmas |
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