handflower

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A Mexican hand tree (Chiranthodendron pentadactylon). sometimes
  2. A wallflower (Erysimum cheiri, syns. Erysimum × cheiri, Cheiranthus cheiri).
  3. An item of jewellery consisting of a bracelet linked to a ring by chains, lace or other elements which cross the back of the hand.
    — The only other piece I owned from the Aurita was a delicate handflower, with similar fine gold chains trailing from a ring on my middle finger and across the back of my hand to a bracelet of twisted gold.

词形变化

handflowers plural

词源

From hand + flower. Chiranthodendron pentadactylon is so called because its flowers resemble five-fingered human hands.
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