英语词汇“white rata”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

b. Any of several woody lianas of the genus Metrosideros, esp. (more fully white rata) M. albiflora and M. perforata, with white or pink flowers.Recorded earliest in rata vine.

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c1875 G. L. Meredith Adventuring in Maoriland (1935) 84 Between the tops of the inside posts and the..outside posts [of the pa fortifications] is a platform of spars, strongly laced to both by rata vine.

1888 G. B. Hetley Nature Flowers N.Z. 2 The lovely white Rata (Metrosideros albiflora)..hanging down a bank and climbing the branches of the trees in masses of white feathery balls.

1951 Bull. Wellington Bot. Soc. 25 24 Several bushes of white rata, Metrosideros perforata, were flowering on the face of the cliffs.

1974 National Geographic Aug. 195 The nightmare tree called rata, which begins as an innocent-seeming vine, and, in the end, strangles the tree to which it attaches itself.

2004 Nelson (N.Z.) Mail (Nexis) 30 Jan. (Features section) 15 These ratas have been grown from cuttings taken from the adult growths of the vines, so they replicate the bushy adult form rather than going through the climbing juvenile phase.

单词	white rata
释义	> as lemmas white rata b. Any of several woody lianas of the genus Metrosideros, esp. (more fully white rata) M. albiflora and M. perforata, with white or pink flowers.Recorded earliest in rata vine. ΚΠ c1875 G. L. Meredith Adventuring in Maoriland (1935) 84 Between the tops of the inside posts and the..outside posts [of the pa fortifications] is a platform of spars, strongly laced to both by rata vine. 1888 G. B. Hetley Nature Flowers N.Z. 2 The lovely white Rata (Metrosideros albiflora)..hanging down a bank and climbing the branches of the trees in masses of white feathery balls. 1951 Bull. Wellington Bot. Soc. 25 24 Several bushes of white rata, Metrosideros perforata, were flowering on the face of the cliffs. 1974 National Geographic Aug. 195 The nightmare tree called rata, which begins as an innocent-seeming vine, and, in the end, strangles the tree to which it attaches itself. 2004 Nelson (N.Z.) Mail (Nexis) 30 Jan. (Features section) 15 These ratas have been grown from cuttings taken from the adult growths of the vines, so they replicate the bushy adult form rather than going through the climbing juvenile phase. extracted from ratan. < as lemmas
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