| 单词 | creosote bush |
| 例句 | Not much grew around Midland other than the Joshua tree, cacti, and the scrubby little creosote bushes that Dad said were some of the oldest plants on the planet. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z He reached the shore and pulled himself onto a rock by a creosote bush. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Matt retreated into the cover of a creosote bush. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Javier used to steal my micro dolls when he was mad at me and hide them in the creosote bush. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The great granddaddy creosote bushes were thousands of years old. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The branches of a creosote bush trembled on the other side as some animal slunk into hiding. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z But the moisture elicited the exotic char-and-herbal scent of creosote bushes common in the park. It’s the Cool Season in Death Valley 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z We passed mesquite trees with their long, tentacle-like roots as well as creosote bushes, which give off a distinct, earthy desert smell after a rain. Tucson Is a City That Encourages You to Explore 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z While driving along, a shiny gleam in the creosote bushes caught my eye. In Gold Butte in Nevada, Ancient Rock Art and Rugged Beauty 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z They look at the night sky, enjoy the scent of creosote bushes after rain, admire petroglyphs and watch owls. Ben Ehrenreich’s Dispatches From the Beginning and End of the World 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z And so Bell walked over to it and picked it up again, placing it carefully in the shelter of a creosote bush. “They ripped him apart”: Searching for answers in the suicide of bullied teen Jadin Bell 2013-09-08T11:00:00Z As we exited the oasis, Harlan pointed out various plants, such as the stinky creosote bush; the golden cholla, with fierce-looking spines; and the leafless smoketree, for which photosynthesis occurs through branches. Beyond the green in Palm Springs: The desert is Coachella Valley’s true oasis 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z The Rubber Tramp Rendezvous agora was a centrally located patch of chalky ground ringed by creosote bushes and giant saguaro. The Real Burning Man 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z Every time I hiked through the scrub, road runners, fence lizards, kangaroo rats and blacktail jackrabbits skittered under the creosote bushes. In Gold Butte in Nevada, Ancient Rock Art and Rugged Beauty 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z At a creosote bush — a-tu-kul in the Cahuilla language — Castro explained how families would boil the leaves to make tea, often sweetened with honey. These Palm Springs hiking trails take you through a lush oasis — and into California history 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z “When we moved in here, there were eight palm trees, some creosote bushes and three or four native trees,” Clark said. This tiny, quirky garden is an endearing remnant of old Palm Springs 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z Kathleen Ferris stared across a desert valley dotted with creosote bushes, wondering where the water will come from to supply tens of thousands of new homes. In Arizona, Colorado River crisis stokes worry over growth and groundwater depletion 2022-12-26T05:00:00Z “The Indigenous people of the desert say, ‘The desert smells like rain,’ and it is the fragrance of the creosote bush.” The most fragrant native plants are just heavenly. Here's what to plant now 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z “There’s got to be a moratorium on this type of building, this type of excess water use,” Callimanis said, looking across the property, its dry soil dominated by creosote bushes. Surfing in the desert? A developer’s plan for a surf lagoon sparks outrage 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z Today, the abandoned shacks are as much a part of the desert as the creosote bushes that dot the land. Abandoned homesteads fascinated me as a kid. Now my childhood home is among them 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z Instead of reporting the incident to the park ranger he spun a story about falling down a steep bank and cutting his head open on a creosote bush. Martyn Stewart: The David Attenborough of sound 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z But Shannon Salter sees ancient Mojave yuccas and wispy creosote bushes, shrewd kangaroo rats and slender foxes, all living atop a hard-packed crust of rock and lichen formed over thousands of years. 'Is this really green?' The fight over solar farms in the Mojave Desert 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z This ocotillo was brown and dry, thanks to the drought, and it was sporting a nest the size of a small tumbleweed, fashioned from the brittle twigs of creosote bushes and other plants. He has celebrated deserts all his life. Now he's sounding the alarm 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z Now, the ruins of an adobe house stand among the creosote bushes. Surfing in the desert? A developer’s plan for a surf lagoon sparks outrage 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z Food franchises cluster as thick as creosote bush along highways, a billboard along one reading, “Prayer Changes Everything.” A California hospital struggles to keep pace with the pandemic 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z Some are fruit: harmless, fuzzy orbs dropped by the creosote bush. How a Velvet Ant (Which Is a Wasp) Got Its White Fluff 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z Dotted with saguaro cactuses and creosote bushes, the swath of Arizona desert that is home to the Barry M. Goldwater Range is a tableau of beauty and harsh desolation. A remote bombing range on the border gets sized up for a piece of Trump’s wall 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z He landed in a creosote bush near a dry lake bed. Virgin Galactic’s Rocket Man 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z Stately hardwood trees give way to squat shrubs, verdant cornfields to brown wheat and lush grasslands to cacti and creosote bush. A Nation Divided: Arid/Humid Climate Boundary in U.S. Creeps Eastward 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z The land is scrubby, flat, dry – dotted with creosote bushes and spindly mesquite trees. 'If there's no water, what's the point?' Female farmers in Arizona – a photo essay 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z Instead, they haul home handmade souvenirs, wire-and-bead sculptures of roadrunners and creosote bushes. At a remote Texas border crossing, pleas for 'No wall' 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z Martinez scrambled down an embankment through ocotillo and creosote bush, splitting the darkness with his flashlight. A Border Patrol agent is dead in Texas, but the circumstances remain murky 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z He paces out the area involved, the landscape dotted with small creosote bushes just behind his acre of property. What it’s like to be struck by lightning 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z A two-hour drive east of Los Angeles, there was once a desert oasis known as the Devil’s Garden where woolly clusters of pincushion cactuses flourished alongside pungent creosote bushes and all manner of sword-leaved yucca. Opinion | The Planet Can’t Stand This Presidency 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z But over the centuries, the land has dried out, and today the vegetation is mainly prickly brush and creosote bushes. In the Nevada desert, Bundy family warns of another standoff 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z Joshua Trees and creosote bushes surround the cabin, which they dubbed the “Lost Coyote Cabin.” Homestead cabins have become a cottage industry in the desert 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z People like living in those areas for the views and so they can be around trees and Saguaro cactus, instead of creosote bush in the lowlands. Gila Monsters Declining From Climate Change, Drought 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z Like when people bring up much older “clonal colonies” of plants, including a ring of creosote bushes in the California desert that’s said to be 11,700 years old. Nevada’s oldest known tree lives on in stories of its death 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z The leaves of the creosote bush contain a resin full of toxic compounds. Desert Rats Finding Meals Less Palatable 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z He drove his truck over sandy soil and through a patchwork of mesquite and creosote bushes. Following football and faith into the desert 2015-08-08T04:00:00Z Siebold didn’t realise the extent of his injuries until he landed, falling forward into a creosote bush. Virgin Galactic pilot tells of falling from the sky after SpaceShip Two broke up 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z Some of these plants produce protective toxins, for example the junipers in the Great Basin desert or the creosote bushes of the Mojave. Packrats Expand Diet With New Gut Bacteria 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z They tested moths' responses to the flower's scent when different odours, including the creosote bush and man-made pollutants, were present. Odours distract insects from flowers 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z A new study finds that warmer weather reduces their ability to tolerate toxins in the creosote bush, which they rely on for sustenance. Desert Rats Finding Meals Less Palatable 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z The principal elements of the plant associations in which the turtles were found were creosote bush, yucca, mesquite, juniper, tarbush, and grasses. Natural History of the Ornate Box Turtle, Terrapene ornata ornata Agassiz 2011-10-01T02:00:30.200Z Then, as the desert rose from smooth plain to mountains, the ground became simply broken rock, sparsely dotted with creosote bush and cholla. The Scarlet Lake Mystery And see, there is a creosote bush, its rich green leaves are covered with a kind of varnish which keeps them cool the same as the hairs would do. Little Tales of The Desert The desert rushed by them, worlds of waxy green creosote bushes and white, gnarly clumps of salt bush; and straight ahead, frowning down on the forgotten city, rose the black cloud-shadow of Shadow Mountain. Shadow Mountain The creosote bush seen from the car-windows shelters a few grasses which brown and die by summer, but help to color the landscape the year around. The Book of the National Parks The mountains were a range of dry rocks, so parched-like and barren that even the creosote bush could not find nourishment along their sides. The Scalp Hunters So he thought within himself, "Come forth, some kind of plant," and there appeared the creosote bush. Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest We passed on our route clumps of cacti, and thickets of creosote bushes, that emitted their foul odours as we crushed through them. The Scalp Hunters It was green as a lawn, that dry, treeless desert with its millions of evenly spaced creosote bushes; but as the sun rose higher it turned blood-red like an omen of evil to come. Shadow Mountain Next he created some black insects which made black gum on the creosote bush. Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest The unsightly limbs of the cactus, and the gloomy foliage of the creosote bush, grow together in seams of the rocks, heightening their character of ruggedness and gloom. The Scalp Hunters |
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