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单词 silk-cotton tree
例句 silk-cotton tree
I visited Montserrat for the St. Patrick’s Festival this year; it began with a torch lighting at the silk-cotton tree at Cudjoe Head—a village named after the man who led the 1768 uprising. St. Patrick’s Day on Montserrat 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z
Kapok, ka-pok′, n. a cottony or silky fibre covering the seeds of a species of silk-cotton tree, used for stuffing pillows, &c. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z
The ceiba, or silk-cotton tree, at whose base I find in Africa so many votive offerings of fetich worship, they found flourishing on Jamaica. Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions 2011-11-18T03:00:28.907Z
I was much surprised to notice the rapidity with which the silk-cotton tree burst into leaf. Cuba Past and Present 2011-04-16T02:00:18.193Z
With no possibility of communicating with the others, he felt his way to a hollow silk-cotton tree, into which he crawled, and climbed upon a heap of debris that stood in the centre. The West Indies and the Spanish Main
A body of mutineers now made towards the road to Maraccas, when the colonel and his three assistants contrived to get behind a silk-cotton tree, and recommenced firing on them. The History of the First West India Regiment
Round the butt-end is wound a little mass from the silk-cotton tree, which exactly fits into the bore of the blow-pipe. On the Banks of the Amazon
Rectus and Corny and Mrs. Chipperton were up in the silk-cotton tree when I got home, and I went there and sat down. A Jolly Fellowship
The silk-cotton tree is the rival of the palm in dignity; it has a white bark and a lofty flat crown. The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America
They feed on the nectar provided by these flowers and those of the silk-cotton tree. A Bird Calendar for Northern India
In a nullah that leads down to the Nerbudda river there stood a large silk-cotton tree, where a colony of weaver-birds had built their hanging nests, and lived snugly in them, whatever the weather. Hindu literature : Comprising The Book of good counsels, Nala and Damayanti, The Ramayana, and Sakoontala
A nest on the 17th August, 1880, on the outside branch of a silk-cotton tree in Belgaum about 12 feet from the ground, containing three fresh eggs. The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1
We had just about finished reading our letters when Corny came up to us to the silk-cotton tree, where we were sitting, and said, in a doleful tone: "We've got to go home." A Jolly Fellowship
That night, as we sat under a large silk-cotton tree silently eating supper off plates of palm leaves, the old chief suddenly threw down his meat, and, with a startled expression, said, "I hear spirits!" Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America
A silk-cotton tree, which had shed all its leaves, stood there in the distance, like a skeleton. The Home and the World
Curiosity, however, urged us on; and at length we reached the ajoupa, which was built on a small open space near the river, beneath a gigantic silk-cotton tree. At Last
As her father had said, she wasn't good at waiting; and so we all went up into the silk-cotton tree. A Jolly Fellowship
That afternoon, we had a meeting up in the silk-cotton tree, and Priscilla, who had sold out her small stock of flowers in the hotel-door market, was requested to be present. A Jolly Fellowship
A body of the mutineers now made towards the road to Maraccas, when the colonel and his three assistants contrived to get behind a silk-cotton tree, and recommenced firing on them.  At Last
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