| 单词 | tasmanian myrtle |
| 释义 | > as lemmasTasmanian myrtle d. Australian. More fully Tasmanian myrtle or Australian myrtle, myrtle beech. A tall tree of Victoria and Tasmania, Nothofagus cunninghamii (family Fagaceae), with small, shiny, dark green leaves; the wood of this tree. ΚΠ 1816 Hobart Town Gaz. 15 June The Mountains on the Northern Shore where the Coal is, are barren, but the rest are generally covered with Myrtle. 1832 J. Backhouse Narr. Visit Austral. Colonies (1843) 48 Myrtle, allied to Beech, but with leaves more like Dwarf Birch, is suited for keels. 1877 Illustr. Austral. News (Melbourne) 3 Sept. 138/1 The most luxuriant growth of forest vegetation, such as the myrtle (fagus cunninghamii). 1957 Forest Trees Austral. (Commonwealth Forestry & Timber Bureau) 220 Celery top pine occurs in cool temperate rain forest..with myrtle beech. 1971 F. H. Titmuss Commerc. Timbers World (ed. 4) 209 The Tasmanian Myrtle, also known as Myrtle Beech or Australian Myrtle, is a hardwood, the timber of Nothofagus cunninghamii... Tasmanian Myrtle works reasonably well, whether by hand or by machine. 1985 Mercury (Hobart) 30 July 14/5 Myrtle wilt, a fungus, killed myrtle, Nothofagus cunninghamii, the predominant species in Tasmanian rainforest, in much the same way as the infamous Dutch elm disease. < as lemmas |
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