英语词汇“moon、flower”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

moon-flower

释义

ˈmoon-flower
1. The ox-eye daisy, Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum; also C. segetum (Treas. Bot.).
1787Withering Brit. Plants (ed. 2) II. 929 Greater Daisy. Ox-eye. Moon-flower.1861D. Greenwell Poems 268 The Sun-flowers and the Moon-flowers.
2. A tropical climbing plant, Ipomœa alba, of the family Convolvulaceæ, which bears fragrant, white, trumpet-shaped flowers opening at night; also, other closely-related plants of the genera Ipomœa and Quamoclit.
1859Tennent Ceylon II. vii. iii. 162 One most interesting flower..is a night-blowing convolvulus, the moon-flower of Europeans.1887E. E. Money Dutch Maiden (1888) 23 The odorous moon-flower gave out a rich perfume.1939A. H. Wood Grow them Indoors 102 Morning glory, moon flower, dawn flower—there are numerous common names for different members of this group of woody climbers.1963W. Blunt Of Flowers & Village 110 My cobaeas and moonflowers have both already germinated.1969G. Macbeth War Quartet 28 Split tins..Leafed into fronds of moon-flowers.
3. A name used in Africa for Datura arborea or D. suaveolens, shrubs native to Central America and belonging to the family Solanaceæ, bearing fragrant, white, trumpet-shaped flowers; also called moon-lily or angel's trumpet.
1913C. Pettman Africanderisms 325 Moon lily or Moon flower, Datura Knightii, which has long, pendulous, strongly scented white flowers.1973Palmer & Pitman Trees S. Afr. III. 1976 It [sc. the potato family] yields foods..flowers..shrubs—such as the moonflower, Datura arborea L., and Cestrum species.

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