| 单词 | caribbean spirit weed | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasCaribbean spirit weed  2.  A shrub or small tree of the tropical American genus  Aegiphila (family  Lamiaceae); spec. (in later use more fully  Caribbean spirit weed)  A. martinicensis. Cf. spirit wood n. at spirit n. Compounds 3. Now rare. ΚΠ 1750    G. Hughes Nat. Hist. Barbados  vi. 156  				The Spirit Weed. This is a strong Shrub, having many substantial Roots. 1830    J. D. Maycock Flora Barbadensis 70 		(note)	  				Ægiphila Martinicencis [sic] is doubtless the Spirit Weed of Hughes. 1974    E. L. Little et al.  Trees Puerto Rico & Virgin Islands II. 856/2  				Other common names [of Aegiphila martinicensis]: spiritweed. 2004    J. K. Francis Wildland Shrubs U.S. & Territories I. 33/2  				Caribbean spiritweed helps protect the soil and furnishes food and cover for wildlife. < as lemmas  | 
	
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