单词 | bottle tree |
释义 | bottle tree (once / 472773 pages) n WORD FAMILY bottle tree: bottle trees USAGE EXAMPLESA man walks toward a baobab tree—also known as a bottle tree—in Madagascar. National Geographic(Apr 22, 2016) Just when you’re headed to check out a bottle tree covered in recycled insulators, you notice a porch post peppered in old keys. Washington Times(Jul 23, 2015) However, in Fort Walton Beach, a few residents keep the legend alive with their own homemade bottle trees. Washington Times(Aug 24, 2014) n an Australian tree of the genus Brachychiton Syn|Hypo|Hyper bottle-tree Brachychiton acerifolius, Sterculia acerifolia, flame durrajong, flame tree south Australian tree having panicles of brilliant scarlet flowers Brachychiton australis, broad-leaved bottletree, flame treenorth Australian tree having white flowers and broad leaves Brachychiton populneus, currajong, kurrajongwidely distributed tree of eastern Australia yielding a tough durable fiber and soft light attractively grained wood; foliage is an important emergency food for cattle Brachychiton rupestris, Queensland bottletree, Sterculia rupestris, narrow-leaved bottletreelarge tree of Queensland having cream-colored flowers blotched with red inside; sometimes placed in genus Sterculia tree a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms |
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