osmanthus

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any of several widely distributed evergreen flowering plants, of the genus Osmanthus. countable,uncountable
    — By 1969, the flower district had under cultivation over 13 hectares of rosebeds alone, 10,000 pots of osmanthus, 50,000 pots of magnolias, camellias and jasmine and several hundred thousand pots of chrysanthemums, as well as thousands of pine, pomegranate and iron trees.

词形变化

osmanthuses plural

词源

From João de Loureiro's (1790) taxonomic name Osmanthus (“genus of flowering shrubs”), from Ancient Greek ὀσμή (osmḗ, “smell”) + ἄνθος (ánthos, “flower”), for the strong scent of the Osmanthus fragrans.
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