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laburnum|ləˈbɜːnəm|
Also 8 liburnum.
[L. (Pliny); adopted as a generic name by P. K. Fabricius (Enum. Meth. Plant. Hort. Med. Helmstadiensis (1759) 228).]
a. A small tree of the genus so called, esp. L. anagyroides or L. alpinum and their hybrids, belonging to the family Leguminosæ and bearing long pendulous racemes of bright yellow flowers followed by pods of poisonous seeds; also, the dark wood of a tree of this kind. Applied also to similar plants of other genera.
1578Lyte Dodoens vi. lxvi. 741 Of Anagyris, Laburnum, and Arbor Iuda. Laburnum..The flowers do grow very thicke togither hanging by a very slender stemme. 1682Wheler Journ. Greece iv. 290 The Flowers [of Anagyris fœtida] also grow out in little bunches, like the other Laburnum but larger. 1754Dodsley Agriculture ii. 387 And pale laburnum's pendent flowers display Their different beauties. 1764Wesley Jrnl. 11 June, We have a tree.., the wood of which is of full as fine a red as mahogany, namely, the Liburnum. 1784Cowper Task vi. 149 Laburnum, rich In streaming gold. 1812E. Sang Nicol's Planter's Kalendar v. 91 The Laburnum timber which brought so high a price was of the variety called the Tree Laburnum. a1821Keats Ep. 271 The dark-leaved laburnum's drooping clusters. 1838J. C. Loudon Arboretum et Fruticetum Britannicum II. xli. 592 Hop⁓poles..are said, when formed of laburnum, to be more durable than those of almost any other kind of wood. 1850Tennyson In Mem. lxxxiii, Laburnums, dropping-wells of fire. 1898Morris Austral Eng., Laburnum, Native, the Tasmanian Clover⁓tree, Goodenia lotifolia..Laburnum, Sea-coast, also called Golden Chain, Sophora tomentosa. 1914W. J. Bean Trees & Shrubs Hardy in Brit. Is. II. 1 Few trees..are so beautiful as the two common laburnums. 1947A. L. Howard Trees in Britain 134 In earlier times..British-grown laburnum was greatly prized for inlay, turnery and cabinet work... Cut in cross section in the round, it was known by the term ‘oyster work’. 1974W. Condry Woodlands xiv. 154 There are long stretches of hedge that are almost purely laburnum which make a marvellous show in June when they are hung with golden chains of blossom. 1975Times 15 Jan. 17/6 An early eighteenth-century oyster walnut and laburnum cabinet.
b. attrib., as laburnum chain, laburnum gold, laburnum yellow.
1893N. Gale Country Muse Ser. ii. 2 The glory of laburnum-gold. 1899Daily News 23 May 2/3 The laburnum chains are dwarfed. Ibid. 27 Feb. 6/6 Rose-pinks, laburnum-yellows, leaf-greens. |