单词 | suikerbos |
释义 | suikerbosn. South African. Any of various South African evergreen shrubs or small trees of the genus Protea, esp. P. repens, which has pink and white flowers and produces a large amount of sweet nectar. Cf. sugar-bush n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > African trees or shrubs > [noun] > protea or sugar-bush sugar-tree1705 wagenboom1790 suikerbos1818 sugar-bush1822 wagon-tree1822 Protea1824 blushing bride1917 1818 C. I. La Trobe Jrnl. Visit S. Afr. List Plants 397 Zuyker-bosch—Protea mellifera. 1852 C. Barter Dorp & Veld vii. 74 We came upon knolls covered with the evergreen Suiker bos a graceful shrub. 1887 A. A. Anderson Twenty-five Years in Waggon I. 211 Palms, baobab,..zuiker-bosh, acacia,..and a host of other trees. 1937 S. Cloete Turning Wheels vii. 104 As he rode past a clump of soikerbos [sic] a duiker sprang out. 1974 A. P. Cartwright By Waters of Letaba 14 Where the suikerbos grew there was no malaria, they said, but below this level, where it was too warm for proteas to flourish.., there lay the danger. 2012 J. Manning & P. Goldblatt Plants Greater Cape Floristic Region I. 675 [Protea] repens... Sugarbush, suikerbos. Shrub or tree to 4.5 m. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1818 |
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