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An oleander is a bush that stays green, with flowers that may be white, pink, or purple. People plant it along hot roads and in gardens because it is tough and looks full. Though actually it is not a gentle garden friend: every part of the plant can make you very sick if you eat it, and even the smoke from burning it can be dangerous. It is a plant to look at, not to chew, and not to put on a cooking fire. The flowers are pretty; that is why the warning matters.
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組成From French oléandre, from Medieval Latin oleandru, from Late Latin lorandrum, perhaps an alteration of rhododendron. The “perhaps” is as far as the story is sure.
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
oleandernoun/ˌəʊliˈændə(ɹ)/
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Nerium oleander, a notoriously poisonous shrub in the dogbane family, Apocynaceae, but nonetheless widely grown as an ornamental, having leathery lance-shaped leaves and deep rose-colored or white flowers.
- "Cut a small branch of oleander from a thrifty plant, place it in a vial partly filled with rain water, so that the lower end of the branch may be immersed about half an inch in the water.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。