manita

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The tree Chiranthodendron pentadactylon, or the red, hand-like flower this tree produces. rare
    — […] The manita tree,* so named from the singular formation of its flower, a drawing of which is placed as the frontispiece of this book, is a species of plant almost unknown in the catalogues of botanists. Manita means a little hand.

词形变化

manitas plural

词源

Borrowed from Spanish manita (“little hand”), feminine-form diminutive of mano (“hand”), because the small red flowers of the tree resemble five-fingered human hands.
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