单词 | spirit wood |
释义 | > as lemmasspirit wood spirit wood n. rare (now historical) a tropical American tree or shrub (not identified, but perhaps of the genus Aegiphila (family Lamiaceae)); cf. spirit weed n. 2. ΚΠ 1692 L. Plukenet Phytographia iii. Pl. CCXV Pneumato xylum Arbor baccifera..Barbadensibus Spirit-wood vocata. 1716 Petiveriana i. 259 Spirit-wood,..Pneumatoxylum. 1852 J. P. Knox Hist. Acct. St. Thomas, W.I. 231 Ægiphila trifida Sw. Spirit Wood. 1979 Bot. Jrnl. Linn. Soc. 79 83 Spirit wood = Aegiphila elata Sw. < as lemmas |
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