| 单词 | candleberry tree |
| 释义 | > as lemmascandleberry tree candleberry tree n. a species of spurgewort, Aleurites triloba, a tree of the Moluccas and the South Pacific Isles, which produces the candle-nut of commerce, the kernels of which are used by the natives as candles.extracted from candleberryn.candleberry tree a. properly candleberry-myrtle n. (a) a shrub ( Myrica cerifera) common in North America, whose berries yield myrtle-wax or bayberry tallow, a greenish-white wax, of which tolerable candles are made; called also bayberry n. 2 and wax-myrtle n. at wax n.1 Compounds 2, and in U.S. commonly candleberry tree; (b) the name is sometimes extended to the other species of galeworts, esp. to the Sweet Gale ( Myrica Gale). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > myrica and allies > [noun] galec1000 Dutch myrtle1597 sweet willow1597 gow1598 sweet-gale1640 candle-tree1692 candleberry tree1731 tallow shrub1770 myrica1791 wax-tree1791 wax-plant1801 wax-myrtle1813 Comptonia1823 tallow-bush1835 wax-berry1835 sweet fern1849 bog myrtle1866 meadow fern1876 flea-wood1892 1731 M. Catesby Nat. Hist. Carolina (1754) I. 13 The broad-leaved Candle-berry Myrtle. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Candle berry tree..an aromatic evergreen..also called the Virginia myrtle. 1762 W. Watson in Philos. Trans. 1761 (Royal Soc.) 52 93 The candleberry myrtle of North America. 1858 E. Lankester & W. B. Carpenter Veg. Physiol. (new ed.) §347 Wax..exists in such abundance in the fruit of a Virginian myrtle, that this has received the name of Candleberry. < as lemmas |
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