| 单词 | hemlock pine |
| 释义 | > as lemmashemlock pine a. A North American tree, Abies canadensis, more fully hemlock fir, hemlock pine, hemlock spruce (also hemlock spruce fir), ‘so called from the resemblance of its branches in tenuity and position to the leaves of the common hemlock’. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > conifers > [noun] > spruces spruce?1602 Norway fir1666 spruce fir1676 hemlock tree1679 hemlock1728 spruce pine1731 white spruce1731 black spruce1741 red spruce1741 Norway spruce1766 silver fir1789 var1793 Engelmann1866 Sitka spruce1867 Sitka pine1868 skunk spruce1876 Colorado spruce1881 Yeddo spruce1932 1728 Boston Town Rec. 8 222 That no popler, chestnut, pine, henlock [sic]..shall be..exposed to sale. 1729 Manchester (Mass.) Rec. 176 A hemblock standing 2 feet to the estord of the pine. 1776 C. Carroll Jrnl. Miss. Canada in B. Mayer Mem. (1845) 49 Several rocky islands appear in the lake [George, N.Y.], covered with a species of cedar here called hemlock. 1781–2 T. Jefferson Notes on Virginia (1787) 39 Hemlock spruce fir, Pinus Canadensis. 1786 G. Washington Diaries III. 9 Planted the Hemlock pine wch was brought to me by Cornelius McDermot Roe. 1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. (1847) xiv. 197 Forests of spruce~fir and hemlock, a kind of fir somewhat resembling our yew in foliage. 1841–4 R. W. Emerson Nature in Wks. (1906) I. 224 The stems of pines, hemlocks, and oaks, almost gleam like iron on the excited eye. 1847 H. W. Longfellow Evangeline Prel. 1 The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight. 1853 W. C. Bryant Poems (new ed.) 288 The long dark boughs of the hemlock fir. 1892 Garden 27 Aug. 200 One came upon finely-developed specimens of the Hemlock Spruce..the Indian Cedar..and such-like ornamental trees. 1927 M. de la Roche Jalna xviii. 213 She stood..looking at the sombre shapes of the hemlocks. 1932 Atlantic Monthly Mar. 331/2 We come to that hidden glade, under the beeches, under the hemlocks. < as lemmas |
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