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dogbane

/dawg-beyn, dog-/US // ˈdɔgˌbeɪn, ˈdɒg- //UK // (ˈdɒɡˌbeɪn) //

犬牙交错,犬吠声,犬吠,犬类

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any of several plants of the genus Apocynum, especially A. androsaemifolium, yielding an acrid milky juice and having an intensely bitter root.

Examples

  • Vinca, ving′ka, n. a genus of woody herbaceous plants of the dogbane family, the periwinkles.

  • Allied to the milkweed is another plant, the dogbane (Apocynum), which has a similar trick of entrapping its insect friends.

  • Apocynum androsmifolium (spreading dogbane), Kineo (Bradford).

  • The larva of this insect feeds on most of the different kinds of milkweed (Asclepias), and also upon dogbane (Apocynum).

  • The small pink flowers of the spreading dogbane may be found all through the summer, often upon our driest hillsides.