| 单词 | bottlebrush plant |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbottlebrush plant b. Any of various trees, shrubs, and other plants having more or less cylindrical flowers or flower spikes, often with many prominent stamens, mostly native to tropical and subtropical parts of the southern hemisphere, esp. banksias and others of the family Proteaceae and members of the genera Callistemon and Metrosideros (family Myrtaceae). Also attributive in bottlebrush plant, bottlebrush tree. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > non-British shrubs > [noun] > Australasian banksia1787 waratah1793 honeysuckle1803 pinkwood1824 honeysuckle tree1825 rose1825 blue bush1828 dogwood1828 parrotbill1829 tulip-tree1830 whitebeard1832 swamp-oak1833 bauera1835 mungitec1837 bottlebrush1839 clianthus1841 glory-pea1848 boronia1852 koromiko1855 pituri1861 Sturt's pea1865 scrub vine1866 pea-bush1867 cotton-bush1876 Australian honeysuckle1881 peach myrtle1882 saloop bush1884 naupaka1888 dog rose1896 native tulip1898 snow bush1909 wedding-bush1923 Hebe1961 mountain pepper1965 1839 R. Buist Amer. Flower Garden Directory (ed. 2) 277 The flowers [of Metrosideros and related genera] consist of stamens, stiles, and anthers.., forming a dense cone crowned with a small twig, hence frequently called ‘bottle brush plant’. 1852 G. C. Mundy Our Antipodes I. ii. 76 The Bottle-brush, one of the most characteristic plants of the bush..has rough, twisted branches, and a leaf something like the holly. Sir Joseph Banks gave it its botanical name of Banksia. 1883 Encycl. Brit. XX. 174/1 Bottlebrush [in Queensland], the Callistemon lanceolatus. 1923 D. H. Lawrence Kangaroo xviii. 397 Gold red bushes of the bottle~brush tree. 1957 P. White Voss iii. 70 Belle had a spray of the crimson bottlebrush that she had torn off recklessly. 1961 Amateur Gardening 30 Sept. (Suppl.) 8/3 Callistemon... the unusual flowers..have a mass of prominent stamens giving the appearance of a bottle brush. This has given rise to the popular name of bottle brush plant. 1998 P. R. Dallman Plant Life in World's Mediterranean Climates 129 (caption) Red bottlebrush (Mimetes cucullatus) has flower heads on tall, erect branches that stand out over the surrounding fynbos vegetation. 2011 Wellington Times (Nexis) 14 June They will be planting around 2000 native trees, River Red Gums, Shea oaks, Bottle Brush and Wattle. < as lemmas |
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