单词 | hazel tree |
释义 | hazel treen. A hazel, Corylus avellana; cf. hazel n. 1a. Also called filbert tree. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > hazel > [noun] hazeleOE hazel treea1425 halse1515 wood nut1578 hazelnut1681 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > edible nuts or nut-trees > [noun] > hazel-nut > hazel-nut tree hazeleOE filbert1393 filbert-tree14.. hazel treea1425 wood nut1578 cob-nut1859 a1425 Medulla Gram. (Stonyhurst) f. 18 Corulus, an haseltre. 1551 W. Turner New Herball sig. Eijv Asarum is called..in english folfote..and asarabacca in duche hasell wurt: because it groweth abowte hasell tree rootes. 1574 J. Baret Aluearie H 204 An Hasell tree, or nut tree, a filbert tree. 1656 A. Cowley To Mr. Hobs in Pindaric Odes Note Virgula Divina, or a Divining Wand, is a two-forked Branch of a Hazel-Tree, which is used for the finding out either of Veins, or hidden Treasures of Gold and Silver. 1695 Family-dict., or Houshold Compan. at Nose bleeding Take the long things that grow on Hazle-Trees before they Leave,..burn them so that they may be reduced to a Powder. 1703 M. Martin Descr. W. Islands Scotl. 11 There is about a hundred young Birch and Hazle Trees on the South-west side of Loch-Stornvay. 1783 Peggy & Patty II. xii. 26 He climb'd the loftiest hazel-trees in the copse, to procure me filberts. 1832 Ld. Tennyson May Queen iv, in Poems (new ed.) 91 On the bridge beneath the hazel-tree. 1890 R. F. Crawford Berge's Compl. Nat. Hist. 192 The Hazel Tree (Corylus Avellana), appears very rarely as a tree, but in the form of a shrub it is frequently seen in forests, and along hedges and in gardens. 1902 All Ireland Rev. 20 Dec. 691/1 A hazel-tree, bearing nuts of bright crimson, which would endow with all knowledge those who might eat of them. 1985 ‘A. T. Ellis’ Unexplained Laughter (BNC) 15 A mountain path which meandered nonchalantly between rowan and hazel trees. 2016 Sunday Express Mag. (Nexis) 23 Oct. 51 If you want a taller feature for a corner, try a small coppice of bushy hazel trees that are cut down to stools or short stumps every few years. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1425 |
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