单词 | umbrella tree |
释义 | umbrella tree (once / 274868 pages) n WORD FAMILY umbrella tree: umbrella trees USAGE EXAMPLESThe umbrella tree has an umbrella-like whorl of leaves surrounding the flower whose white cup stands above three recurving white sepals. Rogers, Julia Ellen, Trees Worth Knowing(2011) Occasionally some old substantive name is used for the species; as Magnolia Umbrella, the Umbrella tree, and Ranunculus Flammula. Gray, Asa, The Elements of Botany—For Beginner...(2010) Here was pointed out a fine, lofty specimen of the umbrella tree, of the pine family, with broad leaves of a deep green. Ballou, Maturin Murray, Due West—or Round the World in Ten...(2010) 1n small deciduous tree of eastern North America having creamy white flowers and large leaves in formations like umbrellas at the ends of branches Syn|Hyper Magnolia tripetala, elk-wood, elkwood, umbrella magnolia magnolia any shrub or tree of the genus Magnolia; valued for their longevity and exquisite fragrant blooms 2n erect evergreen shrub or small tree of Australia and northern New Guinea having palmately compound leaves Syn|Hyper Brassaia actinophylla, Schefflera actinophylla bush, shrub a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems |
随便看 |
英语词典包含147318条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。