immortelle

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any of various papery flowers, often dried and used as decoration.
    — […] a big rabbit-warren of a house full of […] fragments of the day's market, garlic, stale incense, clothes thrown on the floor, petticoats hung on strings for screens, old bottles, pewter crucifixes, dried immortelles, pariah puppies, plaster images of the Virgin, and hats without crowns.
  2. Any of various trees of the genus Erythrina.
    — The land between the road and the gully widened; the gully grew shallower. Beyond it Mr Biswas saw the tall immortelles and their red and yellow flowers. And then the untrodden road blazed with the flowers.

词形变化

immortelles plural

词源

Etymology tree
French immortellebor.
English immortelle
Borrowed from French immortelle.
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