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Definition of fever tree in English: fever treenoun Any of a number of trees which are believed to either cause or cure fever. （据信能引起或治愈热病的）蓝桉（树），疟疾树，尤指 a southern African tree which was formerly believed to cause malaria (Acacia xanthophloea, family Leguminosae). a North American tree used in the treatment of malaria during the civil war (Pinckneya pubens, family Rubiaceae). Example sentencesExamples - ‘You must go down to the great, grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever trees, to find out what the crocodile has for lunch’, the Kolokolo bird tells the Elephant's Child.
- I well remember sitting in my classroom, staring out of the window at murrum dust swirling around a dump of fever trees while the boys completed an exercise on the Armada, and thinking, ‘What on earth am I doing?’
- Bobbejaan was up the bank and into the topmost branches of the fever tree quick as you like!
- As the thick blue-grey clouds loomed, we left the surreal Dr Zeus-like ridgetops and drove down the thorn veldt past the lime green fever trees and into the Nsumu lake and wetland.
- The great grey-green greasy Grumeti river, all set about with fever trees, runs through the heart of the Serengeti.
- Very soon, however, there could be no more Acacia erioloba, no Acacia karroo, no Acacia xanthophloea - otherwise known as camel thorn, sweet thorn and the green-trunked fever tree.
- But their word for bark - the Peruvian is kina - was rendered in Spanish as quina, which came to be associated with the ‘fever tree’.
- The ‘fever tree’ was thought to cure malaria.
Definition of fever tree in US English: fever treenoun Any of a number of trees which are believed to either cause or cure fever. （据信能引起或治愈热病的）蓝桉（树），疟疾树，尤指 a North American tree used in the treatment of malaria during the Civil War (Pinckneya pubens, family Rubiaceae) a southern African tree that was formerly believed to cause malaria (Acacia xanthophloea, family Leguminosae) Example sentencesExamples - Bobbejaan was up the bank and into the topmost branches of the fever tree quick as you like!
- I well remember sitting in my classroom, staring out of the window at murrum dust swirling around a dump of fever trees while the boys completed an exercise on the Armada, and thinking, ‘What on earth am I doing?’
- The ‘fever tree’ was thought to cure malaria.
- Very soon, however, there could be no more Acacia erioloba, no Acacia karroo, no Acacia xanthophloea - otherwise known as camel thorn, sweet thorn and the green-trunked fever tree.
- ‘You must go down to the great, grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever trees, to find out what the crocodile has for lunch’, the Kolokolo bird tells the Elephant's Child.
- As the thick blue-grey clouds loomed, we left the surreal Dr Zeus-like ridgetops and drove down the thorn veldt past the lime green fever trees and into the Nsumu lake and wetland.
- The great grey-green greasy Grumeti river, all set about with fever trees, runs through the heart of the Serengeti.
- But their word for bark - the Peruvian is kina - was rendered in Spanish as quina, which came to be associated with the ‘fever tree’.
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