词汇 | jesse tree |
词源 | Jesse tree. There is no such tree growing in nature. The Jesse tree is a vine with many branches, tracing the ancestry of Christ that is called “rod out of the stem of Jesse” in the Bible and is represented in church stained-glass Jesse windows, Jesse often represented in reclining position with the vine rising out of his loins. |
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