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单词 Cape hyacinth
释义

cape2 /kāp/

noun
  1. A head or point of land jutting into the sea or a lake
  2. (with cap) see the Cape below
intransitive verb (nautical)

To keep a course

ORIGIN: Fr cap, from L caput the head

Cape buffalo see buffalo

Cape cart noun (S Afr)

A two-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle with a hood

Cape Coloured noun (historical)

A person of mixed race, in the former Cape Province of South Africa

Cape doctor noun (S Afr)

A strong south-east wind in the Cape, so named because it was believed to blow away germs

Cape Dutch noun

  1. A former name for Afrikaans
  2. An architectural style of the Cape, characterized by whitewashed, gabled, thatched-roof, single-storey houses

Cape gooseberry noun

  1. The strawberry tomato (Physalis peruviana), a S American solanaceous plant with bladdery calyx, naturalized in S Africa
  2. Its edible, soft, yellow fruit

Cape hyacinth see hyacinth

Cape jasmine noun

A common variety of gardenia (Gardenia jasminoides)

Cape nightingale noun

A frog

Cape pigeon noun

A species of petrel (Daption capensis), a common winter visitor to the Cape area of South Africa

Cape primrose noun

The streptocarpus plant

Cape smoke noun (S Afr sl)

South African brandy, dop

Cape sparrow see under mossie2

the Cape

  1. The Cape of Good Hope
  2. Cape Province, Capetown and Cape Peninsula

hyacinth /hīˈə-sinth/

noun
  1. A flower (a bluebell or blue larkspur) that sprang from the blood of Hyacinthus, a youth accidentally killed by Apollo (Gr myth)
  2. A bulbous genus (Hyacinthus) of the lily family, cultivated
  3. Extended to others of the family, such as wild hyacinth (the English bluebell), grape hyacinth (genus Muscari), and Cape hyacinth a species of Galtonia (G. candicans) with white flowers
  4. A blue gemstone of the ancients (perh aquamarine)
  5. A red, brown or yellow zircon-jacinth
  6. Cinnamon stone
  7. A purple colour, of various hues
ORIGIN: Gr hyakinthos a species of Scilla, blue larkspur, or a blue stone; cf jacinth

hyacinˈthine adjective

  1. Consisting of or resembling hyacinth
  2. Very beautiful, like Hyacinthus
  3. Of a colour variously understood as golden, purple-black, or a blue or purple of some kind

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