英语词汇“rock、plant”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

rock-plant

释义

rock-plant
[rock n.¹]
†1. A petrified plant. Obs.
1691Ray Creation i. (1692) 82 Our ordinary Star-stones and Trochites, which I look upon as a sort of Rock-Plants.1753Chambers Cycl. Suppl. s.v. Saint Cuthbert's Beads, They..have been so far mistaken, by authors, as to be supposed a sort of rock plants.
2. A plant that grows upon or among rocks.
1694tr. Marten's Voy. Spitzbergen 58 The Rock-plant, with but one leaf.Ibid. 72 The Root groweth out of the Rocks, wherefore I call it a Rock plant.
1824Loudon Encycl. Gard. 884 Mountain or rock plants only should be introduced on artificial rock-work.1841Penny Cycl. XX. 53/1 Rock-plants are those plants which are distinguished by growing on or among naked rocks, and are confined to no particular region or latitude.1884Gardening Illustr. 8 Nov. 426/1 Rock Plants..have suffered considerably from the long-continued drought.
3. spec. The biting stonecrop. dial.
1882Devon Plant-names (E.D.S.).

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