| 单词 | cornel-tree |
| 释义 | > as lemmascornel-tree cornel-tree n. the Cornelian cherry tree. (rarely = dogwood n.) Cf. sense 1.The earliest use of the word. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > trees or plants bearing stone fruit > cornelian cherry tree corn-treea1000 cornylierc1490 hoppe1499 cornel-tree1551 cornelian1625 cornelian tree1626 corm1675 cornelian cherry1759 1551 W. Turner New Herball sig. M ijv I heare say that ther is a Cornel tree at Hampton Courte here in Englande. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball vi. li. 725 There be two sortes of the Cornell tree..the tame and wilde. 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique iii. xli. 507 The corneile tree which the Latins call Cornus..it would be planted or grafted after the manner of the ceruise tree. 1783 W. F. Martyn Geogr. Mag. 1 132 The trees most common in Persia are the plane tree..and the cornel-tree. 1879 S. H. Butcher & A. Lang tr. Homer Odyssey 161 Circe flung them acorns and mast and fruit of the cornel tree. < as lemmas |
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