| 词汇 | roystonea |
| 词源 | Roystonea. It isn’t often that someone’s entire name, first and last, is taken for a word, but that is just what happened with General Roy Stone, a 19th-century American engineer in Puer- to Rico who had the Roystonea, or royal palm, named after him. The genus Roystonea is well known, including six species of palms. Often used as an ornamental to line avenues in tropi- cal America, its beautiful crest dominates every landscape where it grows, and every portion from its roots to its crown serves some useful purpose. Some of these feather palm species grow to over 100 feet high and the Roystonea regia species is widely planted in southern Florida. Florida’s Palm Beach, the wealthy resort where over 25,000 millionaires are said to be resident in season, became a palm-fringed paradise when a cargo of coconuts washed ashore from a shipwreck in 1879, and early residents planted the nuts along the once desolate beach. |
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