| 单词 | abele tree |
| 释义 | > as lemmasabele tree The white poplar tree, Populus alba. Formerly also: †the grey poplar, Populus × canescens (obsolete). Also abele tree. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > poplars and allies > [noun] popple1229 popple-tree1229 abele?a1300 poplar1371 black poplar1542 white poplar1542 poppling1570 cotton tree1633 tacamahac1739 Lombardy poplar1766 poplar pine1770 Po poplar1776 grey poplar1782 cottonwood1787 pine poplar1789 liard1809 white-backa1825 necklace poplar1845 silver poplar1847 weather-tree1847 hackmatack1873 bitter-weed1878 balsam-poplar1884 Russian poplar1884 Lombardy1917 ?a1300 Gloss. Tree- & Bird-names in M. R. James Catal. MSS St. John's Coll., Cambr. (1913) 155 (MED) Pubeler, Aubeltre. 1432 in J. C. Tingey Rec. City of Norwich (1910) II. 390 (MED) John Marwe..xal take the ground, pile it and plank it with englyssh oke of hert er ebel of a resonable thiknes. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 17/2 Awbel or ebelle tre [a1500 King's Cambr. ebeltre]. 1467 in J. L. Fisher Medieval Farming Gloss. (1968) 1/1 Abell. 1597 J. Gerard Herball iii. cxiii. 1303 It is called..in English white Poplar tree, and Abeell, after the Dutch name. 1664 J. Evelyn Sylva xvii. 37 The best use of the Poplar, and Abele (which are all of them hospitable Trees, for any thing thrives under their shades) is for Walks. 1681 London Gaz. mdclxii. 4 If any Person desire to be furnished with young Abeele Plants..they may be furnished with what quantity they please,..at 10s. a hundred. 1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 361 The Abell is a kind of white Poplar, only much finer, bears a larger Leaf, and makes a much stronger Shoot. 1730 J. Swift Let. to Certain Esquire 3 Jan. in Wks. (1765) VIII. ii. 75 You have cut down more plantations of willows, and abeles, than would purchase a dozen such islands. 1830 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia Ebble, the asp tree..populus tremula. 1850 E. B. Browning Poems (new ed.) II. 49 Six abeles i'the kirkyard grow, on the north-side in a row. 1882 Garden 16 Sept. 251/3 One very large Abele tree, rotten at the core. 1955 G. Grigson Englishman's Flora 254 Strictly the Abele is Populus alba, much imported from Holland in the seventeenth century. 1986 O. Rackham Hist. Countryside x. 208 Grey poplar, Populus canescens, is a hybrid between abele and aspen. It could in principle be ancient but in all the clones I know I suspect recent planting. 2004 K. Rushforth Easy Tree Guide 126 White poplar, also known as abele, is native to Europe. < 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。