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单词 partridge-wood
释义

partridge-wood

/ˈpɑːtrɪdʒˌwʊd/
noun
1Any of several attractively variegated kinds of wood used especially in cabinet work, especially that of the cabbage-bark tree or angelin, Andira inermis; (also) the wood of an Australian cabbage palm, Livistona inermis, and of the Venezuelan tree Caesalpinia granadillo (family Caesalpiniaceae (Leguminosae)).
  • The wood of the angelin was at first thought to belong to the partridge pea, Heisteria coccinea, the Caribbean French name for the partridge pea, bois perdrix, being misinterpreted as partridge-wood..
2A speckled condition in the heartwood of oak resulting from infection by the basidiomycete fungus Stereum frustulatum.

Origin

Mid 19th century; earliest use found in John Lindley (1799–1865), botanist and horticulturist. From partridge + wood.

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