| 单词 |
msasa |
| 释义 |
msasa|(ə)mˈsasa|
Also m'sassa, musaasa.
[Mashona.]
A Central African tree, Brachystegia spiciformis, of the family Leguminosæ, distinguished by compound leaves, racemes of small, fragrant, white flowers, and a spreading crown of branches. Also attrib.
1923Kew Bull. 133 ‘Musaasa’..is by far the most common of the bark trees and is found all over Southern Rhodesia at an altitude of from 3,000 to 6,000 feet. It grows to 30 or 40 feet in height, has a rough outer bark in the large trees but almost smooth in the young trees... The trunks of the ‘Musaasa’ vary in diameter from 8 to 24 inches. 1949K. L. Simms Sun-Drenched Veld iii. 33 On these islets you can..amuse yourself by trying to pick out the various trees. There is..the crimson-leaved m'sasa..and the scarlet-flowering kaffirboom. 1951D. Lessing This was Old Chief's Country i. 8 This child could not see a msasa tree, or the thorn, for what they were. 1964Listener 6 Aug. 191/1 The black shadow of the African msasa Squats among the lawn's colonial company. 1973Palmer & Pitman Trees S. Afr. II. 847 The msasa is one of the few trees, growing beyond the borders of the Republic, that is well-known to South Africans. It is the dominant tree in most of the savannah forest of Rhodesia, reaching northwards to Zambia and Malawi, and is famous for the gorgeous pink, wine red, copper and bronze colours of its spring foliage. |
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