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The name of an eastern state of the United States, used attrib. or absol. to designate plants or animals associated with the region, as Rhode Island bent = red-top 2; Rhode Island greening, a variety of green-skinned apple, or the tree producing it; Rhode Island Red, a domestic fowl belonging to the breed so called, distinguished by brownish-red plumage; Rhode Island White, a chicken belonging to a variety of the Rhode Island Red, having white plumage.
1790S. Deane New-Eng. Farmer 123/1 The Rhode Island bent, as it is called, or red top grass, will do with less drying than some other grasses. 1899U.S. Dept. Agric. Yearbk. 1898 494 Creeping bent..and Rhode Island bent..are much prized for lawns. 1929J. W. Bews World's Grasses v. 198 The former [sc. Agrostis tenuis] is known as ‘Rhode Island Bent’.
1795J. Jay Let. 12 Dec. in Columbia Library Columns (1970) May 43 Ten are of a kind called Rhode Island Greenings. 1817W. Coxe View Cultivation Fruit Trees 129 Jersey, or Rhode-Island Greening. Sometimes called the Burlington Greening. 1884E. P. Roe Nature's Serial Story 400 Those umbrella-shaped trees are Rhode Island greenings.
1896Country Gentleman (Albany, N.Y.) 26 Nov. 911/2 The Rhode Island Red is a breed of fowls which is exciting considerable interest. 1902Outing Apr. 64/2 The Rhode Island Red has originated in this country. A certain Mr. William Tripp, then of Little Compton, in the State of Rhode Island, bought from a neighbour..a rose-combed Brown Leghorn cockerel to cross upon his flock of buff Malay hens. 1931E. Caldwell Amer. Earth 76 We lived on a small farm and had..a flock of Rhode Island Red chickens. 1937Rhode Island Red [see Kerry2]. 1977J. Hodgins Invention of World (1978) iii. 51 A dozen Rhode Island Reds Anna looked after for their eggs.
1926Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric. No. 1506. 9 The Rhode Island White..is identical with the Rose-Comb Rhode Island Red, except that the plumage should be pure white. 1949F. B. Hutt Genetics of Fowl 16 Color is the sole difference between the Rhode Island Whites and Rhode Island Reds. |