mangrove

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈmæŋɡɹəʊ̯v/|/ˈmaŋɡɹəwv/    美 /ˈmæŋɡɹoʊ̯v/|/ˈmæŋɡɹəʉv/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any of various tropical and subtropical evergreen shrubs or trees chiefly of the Rhizophoraceae family that have aerial roots and grow in clumps in brackish intertidal coastal areas; (specifically) any of various trees of the genus Rhizophora, especially the red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle).
    — The channel by which we went to, and returned from Olinda, was bordered on each side by mangroves, which sprang like a miniature forest out of the greasy mud-banks. The bright green colour of these bushes always reminded me of the rank grass in a churchyard: both are nourished by putrid exhalations; the one speaks of death past, and the other too often of death to come.
  2. A forest of such shrubs or trees. broadly
  3. Preceded by a descriptive word: any of various shrubs or trees of genera other than Rhizophora which resemble plants of this genus in appearance and habitat. broadly
  4. Synonym of mangal (“a tropical and subtropical coastal intertidal swampland ecosystem characterized by mangroves (sense 1) or similar shrubs and trees”). also,attributive,broadly
    — There has been some investigation into the potential of seaweeds as a carbon store, and although more is needed, one study says that seaweed habitats are believed to be the most productive of all coastal vegetated ecosystems, and suggested that the world's seaweed sequesters as much carbon as all the planet’s seagrass meadows, saltmarshes and mangroves combined.

词形变化

mangroves plural

词汇关系

衍生词
Central Mangrove Lower Mangrove mangrove black hawk mangrove cascabel Mangrove Cay Mangrove Creek mangrove cuckoo mangrove fly mangrove gerygone mangrove golden whistler mangrove hen mangrove heron mangrove jack mangrove jezebel Mangrove Mountain mangrove oyster mangrove rail mangrove robin mangrove snake mangrove snapper Upper Mangrove

词源

A modification of earlier mangrowe (obsolete) by the influence of grove (“small forest”) through folk etymology. Mangrowe is probably borrowed from Spanish mangle, mangue (whence English mangle) (probably from an Arawak language (such as Taíno), or a Cariban language) + an unknown word ending.
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