Mahoeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

Taíno mahou

名詞

mahoe (plural mahoes)

1. Any of certain trees in the mallow family, native to the Caribbean.
   • 1954, Ian Fleming, “The Undertaker's Wind”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 181:

     The green flanks of the uplands, all feathered with bamboo interspersed with the dark, glinting green of breadfruit and the sudden Bengal fire of Flame of the Forest, gave way to the lower forests of ebony, mahogany, mahoe and logwood.

   1. Talipariti elatum (syn. Hibiscus elatus, blue mahoe)
   2. Talipariti tiliaceum (syn. Hibiscus tiliaceus, seaside mahoe)
   3. Thespesia populnea (seaside mahoe)

語源 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

From Maori.

名詞

mahoe (plural mahoes)

1. Either of two different trees, usually found around the tropics.
   1. Alectryon macrococcus, a tree in the soapberry family, endemic to Hawaii.
   2. Any tree of genus Melicytus, in the violet family, known from southeastern Australia and New Zealand, especially Melicytus ramiflorus.

参照

• “mahoe”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

アナグラム

• emaho, haemo, haemo-, hæmo-