bottle treen.

Brit.

/ˈbɒtl triː/, U.S.

/ˈbɑdəl ˌtri/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: bottle n.³, tree n.

Etymology: < bottle n.³ + tree n., with allusion to the bottle-like shape of the tree trunk.With use denoting a thorny shrub of south-west Africa (see sense 2), compare Afrikaans bottelboom (1972 or earlier).

1. Chiefly Australian.

a. Any of several trees of the genus Brachychiton (family Malvaceae) found in eastern Australia, in which the central section of the trunk is greatly swollen to allow the retention of water, esp. B. rupestris of Queensland.

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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > Australasian trees > [noun] > other Australasian trees or shrubs

burrawang1826

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kaikomako1832

karaka1834

kawa-kawa1838

peppermint1838

bottle tree1844

ngaio1849

Grevillea1853

red birch1853

wooden pear1860

muskwood1866

sugar-tree1866

tulip-tree1866

hop-bush1883

mock orange1884

mountain beech1884

sage tree1884

tile-seed1884

mutton-bird scrub1889

red birch1889

silver-tree1889

whalebone-tree1889

budda1890

camphor laurel1894

pepperbush1895

mustard bush1898

willow myrtle1898

pigeon wood1899

horizontal scrub1909

turkey-bush1911

pandani1923

mock orange1929

1844 L. Leichhardt Jrnl. Overland Exped. Austral. 11 Oct. (1847) 13 The Bottle-tree (Sterculia, remarkable for an enlargement of the stem, about three feet above the ground) was observed within the scrub.

1846 C. P. Hodgson Reminisc. Austral. 264 The sterculia or bottle-tree is a very singular curiosity. It generally varies in shape between a soda water and port wine bottle.

1885 R. C. Praed Head Station 179 In dense scrub, where the bottle-trees rose weird and white.

1889 J. H. Maiden Useful Native Plants Austral. 60 A ‘Kurrajong’. The ‘Bottle-tree’ of N.E. Australia, and also called ‘Gouty-stem’.

1891 Mrs. P. Martin Coo-ee 284 A great white bottle tree, its trunk perfectly bare.

1931 F. D. Davison Man-shy (1934) vii. 107 Through open bottle-tree country.

1958 R. Stow To Islands 52 Not far from the aerodrome strip there, under the bottle tree.

2000 Leyland's Austral. Winter 14/3 Several lovely Broad Leafed Bottle Trees grow among the columns.

b. A baobab (genus Adansonia); spec. the Australian baobab, A. gregorii, of north-western Australia.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > yielding fibre, thatching, or basket material > [noun] > trees or shrubs yielding fibre, etc. > baobab tree

baobab1640

Adansonia1763

monkey bread1849

bottle tree1880

1880 G. Aberigh-Mackay Twenty-one Days in India xvi. 153 Look at this prisoner slumbering peacefully beside his huqqa under the suggestive bottle tree.

1886 Evening News (Sydney) 20 Oct. 5/5 Kimberley Goldfields... We were taking off the packs under the shade afforded by three huge bottle trees, whose trunks almost united, when we saw the afflicted horse walking toward us.

1935 Lady Rockley Wild Flowers Great Dominions Brit. Empire 169 The fantastic Bottle tree or Australian Baobab (Adansonia Gregorii)..also grows in the Kimberley district of Western Australia.

1955 F. Lane Patrol to Kimberleys 28 ‘That's a baobab tree,’ his uncle said. ‘This northwest section of Australia has a copyright on them. It's also called the “boab” or “bottle-tree”.’

2013 Daily Tel. (Austral.) (Nexis) 27 July 62 The hollow boab or bottle tree (Adansonia gregorii) was used as prison lockup in the 1890s for indigenous prisoners on their way to court.

2. Any of various other trees and shrubs with broadly expanded trunks or stems, typically found in arid or semi-desert regions, esp. the desert rose of Africa and Arabia, Adenia obesum, and the thorny shrub Pachypodium lealii (family Apocynaceae) of south-west Africa.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > non-British flowers > of Africa

ghap1819

Streptocarpus1828

pineapple flower1884

African violet1895

saintpaulia1895

Cape hyacinth1924

bottle tree1931

desert rose1942

1931 Sci. Monthly Apr. 322/1 [Plant hunting in Madagascar] Substantial bottle trees 10 feet thick, Euphorbias 40 feet tall, gigantic didiereas with their long leafless branches.

1972 E. Palmer & M. Pitman Trees Southern Afr. III. 1925 Bottle tree is a good name for this oddly shaped species of dry rocky hillsides of northern South West Africa.

1984 R. Rabesandratana in A. Jolly et al. Madagascar iii. 66 Pachycauly reigns in this arid region of the Island, to the point where species of very diverse families have swollen trunks... Laymen call all these different species ‘bottle-trees’.

1997 T. Mackintosh-Smith Yemen (1999) viii. 229 The road followed a perennial stream lined with little date palms, while ranks of bottle trees marched across the slopes above.

2012 G. Brown & B. A. Mies Vegetation Ecol. Socotra v. 118 The most conspicuous feature of the stem in connection with the bottle-tree habit is the large quantity of ray and conjunctive parenchyma.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	bottle tree
释义	bottle treen. Brit. /ˈbɒtl triː/, U.S. /ˈbɑdəl ˌtri/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: bottle n.³, tree n. Etymology: < bottle n.³ + tree n., with allusion to the bottle-like shape of the tree trunk.With use denoting a thorny shrub of south-west Africa (see sense 2), compare Afrikaans bottelboom (1972 or earlier). 1. Chiefly Australian. a. Any of several trees of the genus Brachychiton (family Malvaceae) found in eastern Australia, in which the central section of the trunk is greatly swollen to allow the retention of water, esp. B. rupestris of Queensland. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > Australasian trees > [noun] > other Australasian trees or shrubs burrawang1826 water gum1826 kaikomako1832 karaka1834 kawa-kawa1838 peppermint1838 bottle tree1844 ngaio1849 Grevillea1853 red birch1853 wooden pear1860 muskwood1866 sugar-tree1866 tulip-tree1866 hop-bush1883 mock orange1884 mountain beech1884 sage tree1884 tile-seed1884 mutton-bird scrub1889 red birch1889 silver-tree1889 whalebone-tree1889 budda1890 camphor laurel1894 pepperbush1895 mustard bush1898 willow myrtle1898 pigeon wood1899 horizontal scrub1909 turkey-bush1911 pandani1923 mock orange1929 1844 L. Leichhardt Jrnl. Overland Exped. Austral. 11 Oct. (1847) 13 The Bottle-tree (Sterculia, remarkable for an enlargement of the stem, about three feet above the ground) was observed within the scrub. 1846 C. P. Hodgson Reminisc. Austral. 264 The sterculia or bottle-tree is a very singular curiosity. It generally varies in shape between a soda water and port wine bottle. 1885 R. C. Praed Head Station 179 In dense scrub, where the bottle-trees rose weird and white. 1889 J. H. Maiden Useful Native Plants Austral. 60 A ‘Kurrajong’. The ‘Bottle-tree’ of N.E. Australia, and also called ‘Gouty-stem’. 1891 Mrs. P. Martin Coo-ee 284 A great white bottle tree, its trunk perfectly bare. 1931 F. D. Davison Man-shy (1934) vii. 107 Through open bottle-tree country. 1958 R. Stow To Islands 52 Not far from the aerodrome strip there, under the bottle tree. 2000 Leyland's Austral. Winter 14/3 Several lovely Broad Leafed Bottle Trees grow among the columns. b. A baobab (genus Adansonia); spec. the Australian baobab, A. gregorii, of north-western Australia. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > yielding fibre, thatching, or basket material > [noun] > trees or shrubs yielding fibre, etc. > baobab tree baobab1640 Adansonia1763 monkey bread1849 bottle tree1880 1880 G. Aberigh-Mackay Twenty-one Days in India xvi. 153 Look at this prisoner slumbering peacefully beside his huqqa under the suggestive bottle tree. 1886 Evening News (Sydney) 20 Oct. 5/5 Kimberley Goldfields... We were taking off the packs under the shade afforded by three huge bottle trees, whose trunks almost united, when we saw the afflicted horse walking toward us. 1935 Lady Rockley Wild Flowers Great Dominions Brit. Empire 169 The fantastic Bottle tree or Australian Baobab (Adansonia Gregorii)..also grows in the Kimberley district of Western Australia. 1955 F. Lane Patrol to Kimberleys 28 ‘That's a baobab tree,’ his uncle said. ‘This northwest section of Australia has a copyright on them. It's also called the “boab” or “bottle-tree”.’ 2013 Daily Tel. (Austral.) (Nexis) 27 July 62 The hollow boab or bottle tree (Adansonia gregorii) was used as prison lockup in the 1890s for indigenous prisoners on their way to court. 2. Any of various other trees and shrubs with broadly expanded trunks or stems, typically found in arid or semi-desert regions, esp. the desert rose of Africa and Arabia, Adenia obesum, and the thorny shrub Pachypodium lealii (family Apocynaceae) of south-west Africa. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > non-British flowers > of Africa ghap1819 Streptocarpus1828 pineapple flower1884 African violet1895 saintpaulia1895 Cape hyacinth1924 bottle tree1931 desert rose1942 1931 Sci. Monthly Apr. 322/1 [Plant hunting in Madagascar] Substantial bottle trees 10 feet thick, Euphorbias 40 feet tall, gigantic didiereas with their long leafless branches. 1972 E. Palmer & M. Pitman Trees Southern Afr. III. 1925 Bottle tree is a good name for this oddly shaped species of dry rocky hillsides of northern South West Africa. 1984 R. Rabesandratana in A. Jolly et al. Madagascar iii. 66 Pachycauly reigns in this arid region of the Island, to the point where species of very diverse families have swollen trunks... Laymen call all these different species ‘bottle-trees’. 1997 T. Mackintosh-Smith Yemen (1999) viii. 229 The road followed a perennial stream lined with little date palms, while ranks of bottle trees marched across the slopes above. 2012 G. Brown & B. A. Mies Vegetation Ecol. Socotra v. 118 The most conspicuous feature of the stem in connection with the bottle-tree habit is the large quantity of ray and conjunctive parenchyma. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1844
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