| 单词 | american mountain ash |
| 释义 | > as lemmasAmerican mountain ash 1. Any of various trees of the genus Sorbus (family Rosaceae), typically having pinnate leaves, white flowers, and red berries; esp. S. aucuparia of Europe (also called rowan) and (more fully American mountain ash) S. americana of North America. Also: the wood of any of these trees. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > berry-bush or -tree > [noun] > mountain ash quick treeeOE wycheOE quickena1400 foldc1420 rowan-tree1483 quickbeam?1537 wild ash1552 field ash1578 mountain ash1597 quicken berry1597 whitten1633 witchen1664 quickenberry tree1671 wicky1681 rowan1751 narrow-leaved service tree1793 sorb1796 bastard mountain ash1800 roundwood1846 fowler's service tree1859 the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > berry-bush or -tree > [noun] > mountain ash > types of mountain ash1845–50 roundwood1846 1597 J. Gerard Herball iii. 1290 The..Ornus which also is named ὀρεινὴ μελία, or Montana Fraxinus, mountaine Ash. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis x, in tr. Virgil Wks. 530 Like a Mountain Ash [L. ornum], whose Roots are spread, Deep fix'd in Earth. 1745 P. Thomas True Jrnl. Voy. South-Seas 36 Besides those Myrtle Trees, there are the Mountain-Ash..the Pepper Tree [etc.]. 1785 H. Marshall Arbustrum Americanum 144 Sorbus, the Service Tree, Quickbeam, or Mountain Ash. 1814 W. Wordsworth Excursion vii. 342 The mountain Ash, Decked with autumnal berries. 1845–50 A. H. Lincoln Familiar Lect. Bot. (new ed.) App. 172 Sorbus americana (mountain ash..). 1875 Encycl. Brit. II. 680/2 Pear trees are sometimes grafted on the mountain ash. 1904 M. E. Waller Wood-carver 49 I noticed..some fine specimens of mountain-ash. 1938 M. L. Wolfram in H. Gilman Org. Chem. I. xvi. 1442 The French scientist, Pelouze, described the isolation of a new ketohexose from the juice of the berries of the mountain ash. 1992 Nature Canada Fall 10/3 American mountain ash and trembling aspen abound. < as lemmas |
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