| 单词 | sorrowful tree |
| 释义 | > as lemmassorrowful tree sorrowful tree n. the night-flowering jasmine, Nyctanthes arbor-tristis of southern Asia; = sad tree n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > cultivated or ornamental trees and shrubs > [noun] > jasmine jasmine1548 Indian mourner1597 jesse1597 makebate1597 sad tree1597 shrub trefoil1597 sorrowful tree1597 double pipe-tree1629 jessamy1631 mogra1662 melancholy tree1760 night jasmine1866 sampaguita1902 pikake1933 1597 J. Gerard Herball iii. 1342 Arbor tristis, the sad or sorrowfull tree waxeth as bigge as an Oliue tree. 1657 S. Clarke Examples Wonderfull Works God ii, in Geogr. Descr. All Countries 195 There is also a tree called Arbore triste, or the sorrowful tree, so called, because it never beareth blossoms but in the night-time. 1757 tr. C.-M. Guyon New Hist. E.-Indies I. ii. i. iii. 308 There grows in the island of Goa a very singular tree, called the sorrowful tree, because it flourishes in the night-time only. 1840 J. Taylor Topogr. & Statistics Dacca ii. 57 The sorrowful tree, or Indian Mourner, so named from the drooping withered look of the flowers during the day. 1900 Birds & all Nature Jan. 44/1 When the first star appears in the heavens, the first bud of the Sorrowful Tree opens. 2003 Spectator (Hamilton, Ont.) (Nexis) 11 July a11 It is called the Sorrowful Tree because it has the remarkable characteristic of blooming only in the night. < as lemmas |
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