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The name of one of the United States of America, situated on the Pacific coast, used attrib. to designate plants and animals found in the region, as Oregon ash, a species of ash, Fraxinus oregana, or its wood; Oregon cedar = Lawson cypress (Lawson); Oregon fir = Douglas fir (Douglas1); Oregon grape, an evergreen shrub, Mahonia aquifolium, bearing racemes of yellow flowers followed by dark berries resembling grapes; also, the berry itself; Oregon junco, a small black, brown, and white bunting, Junco oreganus; Oregon lily, one of the hybrid lilies produced by Jan de Graaff at the Oregon Bulb Farms; Oregon pine = Oregon fir.
1869Amer. Naturalist III. 407 Oregon Ash... This first appears at the Dalles. 1969T. H. Everett Living Trees of World 287/1 Other American ashes worthy of note include the Oregon ash..most important of Western species, which grows to a height of 80 feet and may have a trunk 4 feet in diameter.
1872F. F. Victor All over Oregon & Washington xxvii. 279 The Oregon cedar..grows very abundantly near the coast. 1971F. H. Titmuss Commercial Timbers of World (ed. 4) 94 Alternative names for the timber [of Lawson cypress] include Oregon Cedar and White Cedar.
1904E. O. Wooton Native Ornamental Plants of New Mexico 15 The Douglas Spruce or Oregon Fir..and the Bull Pine..would well repay the care necessary to getting them established.
1851Oregon Statesman (Oregon City) 27 June 3/1 Oregon Grape, so called, is not a grape, but resembles the grape in size and appearance. 1873G. M. Grant Ocean to Ocean 283 A dark green prickly-leaved bush like English holly, called the Oregon grape. 1949Jrnl. N.Y. Bot. Gdn. July 153/1 In one bed is Oregon grape and beauty-berry. 1971Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 27 May 53/3 The meat is then placed in the pit and covered with kelp, seaweed, Oregon grape and other wild plants. 1974J. E. Underhill Wild Berries 69 Still other people are devotees of Oregon Grape wine.
1917T. G. Pearson Birds Amer. III. 47 Maybe the handsomest is the Oregon Junco..with a black head and breast sharply defined against a mahogany-brown back, white under parts, and pinkish-brown sides. 1964A. Wetmore Song & Garden Birds N. Amer. 364/2 In winter flocks of Oregon juncos roam western foothills, canyons, and suburbs. 1971Islander (Victoria, B.C.) 13 June 13/3 Oregon junco..come from the north during winter.
1964Horticulture Dec. 49/1 (Advt.), World Famous Oregon Lilies, Higo Iris, Hardy Cyclamen and Exbury Azaleas. Send for free catalog. Rex Bulb Farms..Newburg, Oregon. 1967J. de Graaff Lilies 31 Those [lilies]..are becoming known as the Oregon lilies because they are bred and raised in Oregon.
1845N. Amer. Rev. LX. 166 One of those gigantic Oregon Pines..whose prostrate trunk Douglas found to be two hundred and fifty feet in length. 1888Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 386/2 The principal timber is yellow and red fir, ordinarily known as ‘Oregon pine’, which constitutes the bulk of the forests. 1889[see Nootka fir s.v. Nootka B. adj. 2]. 1947R. Peattie Sierra Nevada 148 Douglas fir..is known in the trade as Oregon pine. 1964House & Garden Oct. 95/1 Her kitchen units, in Oregon pine.
Hence Oregoˈnese, the people of Oregon; Oreˈgonian a., belonging to Oregon; as n., a native or inhabitant of Oregon; ˈOregonly adv., after the manner of an Oregonian.
1848E. Bryant California xv. 197, I think the Oregonese had a little the advantage of us in this respect. a1861T. Winthrop John Brent (1862) xxii. 243 Armstrong's opinion was only my own, expressed Oregonly. 1863Harper's Mag. Sept. 570/2 If one does not know the ‘lingo’, he will often be troubled in conversing with the Oregonians. 1873J. H. Beadle Undevel. West xxxv. 762 There is a distinctively Oregonian look about all the natives and old residents. Ibid. xxxvi. 772 No Oregonians will eat of salmon caught above the mouth of the Willamette. 1974New Yorker 25 Feb. 88/3 Oregonians, in whatever part of the state they reside, tend to be small⁓town-ish. |