| 释义 |
flatwoods U.S.|ˈflætwʊdz|
[f. flat a. + wood n.1]
Low-lying timber land; applied especially to types of well-wooded land in Ohio, Alabama, and Florida.
1841in Amer. Speech (1940) XV. 179/1 Running up under the foot of the ridge to a large span oak tree and a forked sugar standing in a flat woods. 1888‘C. E. Craddock’ Keedon Bluffs 169 The cattle.. had been..driven home to the farms in the ‘flat-woods’. 1908R. W. Chambers Firing Line ix, Where have you been for a week? In the flat-woods. Ibid. x, Those lemon-tinted butterflies which haunt the Florida flat-woods. 1946G. Wilson Fidelity Folks 95 We got to see funny people from up the creek and out in the Flatwoods. |