“monkey、pot”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

monkey-pot

释义

ˈmonkey-pot
Also monkey's pot.
1. The woody seed-vessel of the Brazilian tree Lecythis ollaria; the tree itself.
1849Balfour Man. Bot. §867 Lecythis ollaria, a large Brazilian tree, yields the woody capsules called Monkey-pots.1855Dalton Hist. Brit. Guiana II. 201 Monkey's pot, Lecythis grandiflora.1861Bentley Man. Bot. 310 Pyxis of the Monkey-pot..with transverse dehiscence.1871Kingsley At Last xi, If nature has played the poor monkeys a somewhat tantalizing trick about Brazil nuts, she has been more generous to them in the case of some other Lecythids, which go by the name of monkey-pots.
2. A vessel used in tropical countries for cooling drinking-water. Cf. monkey n. 7 c.
1897Gunter Susan Turnbull xxi. 265 Let him [the butler] remember that the rain-water for our drinking is to be well chilled in monkey-pots.

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