单词 | cocoa palm |
例句 | The beach is banked behind by waving plantain or banana-trees, and cocoa palms are nodding in the air.” The Island of Gold A Sailor's Yarn 2011-10-03T02:00:28.483Z As the plane lost headway, the white line of surf and the silhouettes of cocoa palms took shape. The Image and the Likeness 2011-08-23T02:00:33.617Z During the last hour the river had widened, and along its banks tufted cocoa palms were woven with the brighter foliage of bananas into the rich green damask of the bordering jungle. The Mystery of The Barranca 2011-05-25T02:00:16.720Z There is an avenue of cocoa palms here which is of almost unearthly beauty. Cuba Past and Present 2011-04-16T02:00:18.193Z Along the tropical coasts the cocoa palm grows, while along the Gambia River vast quantities of a species of plant called the groundnut are extensively cultivated. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z “Jack” hesitated, and then, as if suddenly making up his mind, accompanied the Irishman to the nearest grove where the cocoa palms grew close down to the sea. Commodore Junk 2010-12-20T17:12:13.450Z It is a notable member of the fruit-bearing trees of these latitudes, and is next in importance to the cocoa palm, with its serrated, feathery leaves, and its melon-shaped product. The Pearl of India The cocoa palms throughout the city stirred dreamily in the tempered moonlight; and the banana trees, bending with their luscious burden, cast great, mysterious shadows, wherein insect life rustled and scampered in nocturnal activity. Carmen Ariza In the midst of a perfect forest of cocoa palms stands the former summer villa of the Bishops of Havana, now a private residence. Cuba Past and Present 2011-04-16T02:00:18.193Z A party of six was told off to climb the cocoa palms across the road; while another, shouting and hallooing like schoolboys, was dispatched to Holderson's station to get sinnet. Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas The town follows the sinuous windings of the shore for upwards of a mile and a half, under an arcade of cocoa palms, which forms one of the finest promenades imaginable. In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 He landed on the principal of these islands, which he found to be one huge garden of cocoa palms and breadfruit-trees. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century They take out the bones from the bodies of their relations, burn the flesh, and mixing the ashes with tuba, a wine made from the cocoa palm, swallow them. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part I. The Exploration of the World It was at the foot of a cocoa palm. Work and Win or, Noddy Newman on a Cruise On many of the atolls grow cocoa palms, and only then are the ring-shaped islands inhabitable. From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People It lies very low and close to the water's edge, the houses of the natives being all constructed on piles driven into the mud, and embowered in a dense framework of cocoa palms. In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 Behind us rose the lofty hill-tops, carpeted with verdure, from which shot up the light and graceful stems of the cocoa palms. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century According to Sir Stamford Raffles it is taught to climb the cocoa palms for the fruit for its master, and to select only those that are ripe. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Most of the trees in the village are palms; some, cocoa palms. In Indian Mexico (1908) On the strand grow the ever-present cocoa palms, as distinctive of the islands of the southern sea as the date palms are of the desert regions of the Old World. From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People If we turned inland our way was on a road double-lined with cocoa palms, or up some tangled dell where a silvery cascade leaped through the deep verdure. The Flower of the Chapdelaines Within, at the end of a shady garden, I could see the porch of a planter's house; beyond were rows of cocoa palms, and glimpses of yellowing cane. The Romance of the Milky Way And Other Studies & Stories It is a regular Malay village, consisting of huts, built on piles close to the water, overshadowed by cocoa palms and other forms of tropical vegetation. A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months Gigantic cactuses surround the town, and cocoa palms rise to great heights within it. In Indian Mexico (1908) Some of us supposed these to be the rima, intermixed with low cocoa palms; and a few of some other sorts. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 15 Forming A Complete History Of The Origin And Progress Of Navigation, Discovery, And Commerce, By Sea And Land, From The Earliest Ages To The Present Time They eat rice, have many cocoa palms, and use salt. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 02 of 55 1521-1569 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century Johnny begged for his turn, but didn't get it for two hours, by which time the tops of the cocoa palms could be seen. Dick in the Everglades Accompanied by a few flowering cocoa palms, the view is not unpleasing. Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886 Up to the west side of the wall, the ground has been cleared, and there are cocoa palms and mummy-apples and guavas, and lots of sensitive plants. Island Nights' Entertainments Most of them are entirely clothed with trees, amongst which are many cocoa palms, and each forms a prospect like a beautiful garden placed in the sea. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 15 Forming A Complete History Of The Origin And Progress Of Navigation, Discovery, And Commerce, By Sea And Land, From The Earliest Ages To The Present Time Here are found rubies and many precious things, and rare plants grow abundantly, with cedar trees and cocoa palms. The Arabian Nights The air was fresh and balmy, and seemed to sigh plaintively among the betel and cocoa palms that skirt the monastery. The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok There was the cocoa palm, the date palm, and the cabbage palm, the latter of which furnished us good food, while the wine tree afforded an excellent and cooling drink. Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America I'll wager that when Antony first set eyes on Cleopatra, he said, 'And which cocoa palm did she fall out of?' From a Bench in Our Square Notwithstanding this poor soil, it is covered with trees and bushes of the same kind as at Wanooa-ette, though with less variety; and amongst these are some cocoa palms. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 15 Forming A Complete History Of The Origin And Progress Of Navigation, Discovery, And Commerce, By Sea And Land, From The Earliest Ages To The Present Time Cabbage and cocoa palms overlook all the streets, bending above almost every structure, whether hut or public building;—everywhere you see the splitted green of banana leaves. Two Years in the French West Indies A baboon, trained to climb the cocoa palms and throw down the nuts, is an inmate of most of the houses. The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither The cocoa palms grow all round the island, which is scarce like nature's planting. The Ebb-Tide He was hanging in a cocoa palm—I'm not botanist enough to tell you how—but it's the way, in nine cases out of ten, these natives commit suicide. The Ebb-Tide There was a hollow place of the sand in that part, and, as it were, a glade among the cocoa palms in which the direct noonday sun blazed intolerably. The Ebb-Tide |
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