| 单词 | tung tree |
| 释义 | > as lemmastung tree a. Any of three trees of the genus Aleurites or Vernicia (family Euphorbiaceæ), A. fordii, A. cordata, and A. montana, which are native to China and Japan and are cultivated there and elsewhere for the oil from their seeds. So tung tree. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plant, nut, or bean yielding oil > [noun] > trees or shrubs yielding oil > Asian > tung or candlenut tree or bean Indian walnut1831 candle-nut1835 candle-nut tree1854 candleberry tree1866 kukui1866 tung1889 tung oil tree1913 tung nut1937 1889 Cent. Dict. Tung-tree. 1914 N. Shaw Chinese Forest Trees i. ii. 70 Tallow, tea-oil trees, and tung grow wild in these hills. 1921 Outward Bound Jan. 42/1 The tung tree was the abode of the phoenix. 1959 E. Pound Thrones xcix. 52 Phoenix to t'ung tree A mirrour to flowers, as water is to the moon. 1965 J. Ch'ên Mao & Chinese Revol. (1967) i. vii. 138 The mountains are covered..with t'ung-trees. 1974 Tropical Agriculture LI. 10 This series of trials has shown that nitrogen is the most important nutrient for tung in Malawi. < as lemmas |
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