单词 | common hackberry |
释义 | > as lemmascommon hackberry a. Any of various deciduous trees belonging to the genus Celtis (family Cannabaceae), widespread in north temperate regions (often with distinguishing word); esp. (more fully common hackberry) a medium-sized tree of the north-eastern United States with a rough, corky bark, Celtis occidentalis. Also hackberry tree. Also called nettle-tree.Cf. earlier hagberry n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > berry-bush or -tree > [noun] > North American > hackberry or nettle tree lote?1518 lote-tree1548 nettle-tree1548 lotus1551 lotus tree1601 saffron-tree1716 hagberry1737 hoop-ash1763 hackberry1779 sugar-berry1818 1779 D. Smith Jrnl. 22 Nov. in Tennessee Hist. Mag. (1915) i. 56 The line strikes the clear fork about 1–2 mile above the mouth of the little Cr[eek] in a canebrake on a Poplar & 2 Hackberry trees marked with the initial letters of several names. 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 636 Of the natural growth..we may reckon the..papaw, the hackberry, and the cucumber trees. 1807 Z. M. Pike Acct. Exped. Sources Mississippi (1810) i. App. 41 Timber, on both sides, generally hackberry, cottonwood, and ash. 1861 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 4 411 The Mississippi hackberry..differs only by its entire smooth leaves, the shorter pedicels and the smoother bark. 1880 Encycl. Brit. XI. 360/1 The hackberry tree is of middle size, attaining from 60 to 80 feet in height, and with the aspect of an elm. 1924 J. S. Illick Tree Habits vi. 163 In general appearance there is close resemblance between the Hackberries and the Elms. 1947 R. Bedichek Adventures with Texas Naturalist (1984) 269 The native hackberry of the Edwards Plateau and of the blackland prairies is the rough-leaved hackberry. 1978 P. Matthiessen Snow Leopard (1987) ii. 137 Moving upriver in near darkness, we find a bear's nest in a hackberry—our first sign of the Asiatic black bear. 2006 Daily Tel. 28 July 20/5 Hackberry trees, the principal food source for caterpillars in Texas, have been stripped bare by the population explosion. < as lemmas |
随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。