| 单词 | water fir |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswater fir water fir n. (in early use) a fir tree, or a plant likened to a fir, growing in or near water; (now) spec. either of two deciduous coniferous trees found in parts of China, Glyptostrobus pensilis and the metasequoia, Metasequoia glyptostroboides. ΚΠ 1831 G. Don Gen. Syst. Gardening & Bot. I. 448/2 H[ydropityon] zeylanicum... Ceylon Water-fir. 1910 F. H. Britton Teddie xii. 132 Toward a water-fir that stood farthermost among all its brethren, a gentle swell swung his canoe. 1948 Jrnl. N.Y. Bot. Garden 49 202 In the winter of 1941 Professor T. Kan..saw on the roadside at Mou-tao-chi in Wan Hsien a large deciduous tree which was called by the natives shui-sa or water fir. 2007 W. Ping Last Communist Virgin in K. L. Thornber Ecoambiguity (2012) iii. 206 Everything along the river will go—the fields, the roads, the villages, the cities, the mountains, and our water fir. < as lemmas |
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