“calamander”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

calamander

释义

calamander|kæləˈmændə(r)|
Also calaminder, (? calaminda).
[Of uncertain origin: see quot. 1859. Clough Singhalese Dict. gives kalumadīriya as the Singhalese name; which Forbes Watson cites also as calumidiriya, kalumederiye, etc., but these may be adaptations of the Dutch.]
A beautiful and extremely hard cabinet wood of Sri Lanka and India, the product of Diospyros quæsita (family Ebenaceæ), specifically akin to ebony.
1804R. Percival Ceylon in Ann. Rev. II. 47/2 The banyan, the cotton-tree, the tickwood, and the beautiful calamander..are indigenous here.1828Heber Journ. Upper India (1844) II. 161 (Y.) The Calamander tree..is become scarce from the improvident use formerly made of it.1833H. Martineau Cinnamon & P. v. 79 The finely-veined calaminda.1859Tennent Ceylon I. i. iii. 118, I apprehend that the name Calamander, which was used by the Dutch, is but a corruption of Coromandel.

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