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Pennsylvania|pɛnsɪlˈveɪnɪə|
One of the middle Atlantic states of the United States, named after Admiral Sir William Penn (1621–70), in 1681. Used attrib. to denote articles, inhabitants, products, or varieties of plants characteristic of, or growing in, Pennsylvania, as Pennsylvania anemone, Pennsylvania ash, Pennsylvania cap, Pennsylvania corn, Pennsylvania division, Pennsylvania dwarf mountain maple, Pennsylvania mountain laurel, Pennsylvania salve, Pennsylvania wagon, Pennsylvania wind flower; Pennsylvania German n. and a. = Pennsylvania Dutch n. and a.
1900B. B. Smyth Plants & Flowers Kansas ii. 54 On the low prairies may be found plenty of Pennsylvania anemone, a plant with..numerous branches, each terminated by a flower with five broad white sepals.
1810P. Wakefield Excursions N. Amer. (ed. 2) xxviii. 191 The black fir, the Weymouth pine, the red cedar, the common fir, the red maple, the Pennsylvania ash..are also common. 1971M. Tak Truck Talk 116 Pennsylvania caps, recapped tires with an unbroken tread line.
1739in Colonial Rec. Georgia (1905) III. 429 We all were disappointed by..planting the yellow Pensilvania Corn. 1929Papers Mich. Acad. Sci., Arts & Lett. X. 314/1 Pennsylvania Division, the Twenty-eighth Division.
1785H. Marshall Arbustrum Amer. 2 Acer pennsylvanicum,..Pennsylvania Dwarf Mountain Maple. 1869Nation (N.Y.) 30 Dec. 583/2 The Pennsylvania German is a South German dialect. Ibid. 584/1 Divine service among the Pennsylvania Germans is held in High German. 1875A. R. Horne (title) Pennsylvania German manual. 1956Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. xxvi. 30 The Norwegian spoken among the immigrants showed the same combination of archaism and levelling as other American languages, though the relatively brief period of its life has not permitted the kind of consolidation found in Pennsylvania German or the colonial languages proper. 1970Globe & Mail (Toronto) 25 Sept. T3/3 Mennonite and Pennsylvania-German societies will be in attendance [at a festival]. 1972H. Kurath Stud. Area Linguistics 105 This divergence between Pennsylvania German (essentially a Rhine Frankish folk dialect of west central Germany) and Standard German..would tend to keep the two apart.
1785H. Marshall Arbustrum Amer. 127 Rhododendrum maximum, Pennsylvania Mountain Laurel. 1899‘J. Flynt’ Tramping with Tramps iv. 396 Pennsylvania salve, apple-butter.
1810M. van H. Dwight Journey to Ohio (1912) 39 This line is the shape of a Pennsylvania waggon. 1869J. G. Fuller Uncle John's Flower-Gatherers 28 [The anemone] blooms later, in May and June, and is called the Pennsylvania Wind Flower. |