英语词汇chicago fire的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Chicago fire. The only plant named after a great fire, this midwestern bush (Kochia scoparia) with bright red foliage takes its unusual name from the Chicago fire of 1871, which raged for three days and took several hundred lives. It is also called “firebush,” “burning bush,” “summer cypress,” and “Kochia bush,” after the German botanist W. D. J. Koch, for whom the brilliant Eurasian genus is named. The Chinese make brushes from the bushy plant, which is grown as an ornamental here.

词汇	chicago fire
词源	Chicago fire. The only plant named after a great fire, this midwestern bush (Kochia scoparia) with bright red foliage takes its unusual name from the Chicago fire of 1871, which raged for three days and took several hundred lives. It is also called “firebush,” “burning bush,” “summer cypress,” and “Kochia bush,” after the German botanist W. D. J. Koch, for whom the brilliant Eurasian genus is named. The Chinese make brushes from the bushy plant, which is grown as an ornamental here.
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