| 单词 | joshua tree |
| 释义 | Joshua tree in British Englishnoun a treelike desert yucca plant, Yucca brevifolia, of the southwestern US, with sword-shaped leaves and greenish-white flowers Word origin named after the prophet Joshua, alluding to the extended branches of the treeJoshua tree in American English US a tree (Yucca brevifolia) of the agave family, found in the SW U.S. and characterized by branches that are extended grotesquely like upraised arms and by dagger-shaped, spine-tipped leaves Word origin ? Mormon coinage on the fancied resemblance of the angular branches to the arms of Joshua leading the IsraelitesExamples of 'Joshua tree' in a sentence |
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