单词 | arrowwood |
释义 | arrowwoodn. Chiefly North American. †(a) alder buckthorn, Frangula alnus (family Rhamnaceae) (obsolete); (b) any of several North American shrubs of the genus Viburnum (family Adoxaceae), esp. V. dentatum, having stiff, straight stems formerly used by North American Indians to make arrows; (c) any of various other North American shrubs, esp. of the genus Euonymus, which typically grow in dense thickets and have tough, straight stems; also called arrowweed, burning bush, wahoo.Also with distinguishing word. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > non-British timber trees > [noun] > North American arrowwood1578 white pine1682 wicopy1704 American olive1772 pumpkin pine1809 mountain mahogany1810 redwood1819 western yellow pine1857 western hemlock1867 western red cedar1874 Sitka cedar1875 ponderosa1878 walking stick1910 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball vi. lxxviii. 758 This plant is called of the Brabanders, Sporckenhout, and of the chyldren of this Countrie, Pijlhout, that is to say, bolt timber, or arrow wood [Fr. bois aux fleches], bycause they make Arrowes with it, to shoote withall. 1709 J. Lawson New Voy. Carolina 100 Arrow-Wood, growing on the Banks, is used, by the Indians, for Arrows and Gun-Sticks. 1785 H. Marshall Arbustrum Americanum 160 Viburnum dentatum. Tooth-leaved Viburnum, or Arrow Wood. 1819 H. McMurtrie Sketches of Louisville 217 Euonymus carolinensis, Arrow Wood, indian. 1832 J. P. Kennedy Swallow Barn I. xiv. 146 Morasses, which were formerly, and in some places are now, over-grown with thickets of arrow-wood, nine-bark, and various other shrubs. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 1264/1 Arrow-wood, a British Columbian name for Spirœa Douglasii or S. opulifolia. 1873 J. H. Beadle Undeveloped West xv. 256 Dwarfish oak, and arrow-wood disappear. 1907 Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. No. 56 127 The common shrubbery is a dense and monotonous growth of arrowwood (Pluchea sericea). 1976 Corbin (Kentucky) Times-Tribune 22 Sept. 4/1 Other common names [for Euonymus americanus] include spindle bush, Indian arrowwood, and wahoo. 1997 M. A. Godfrey Field Guide Piedmont (new ed.) v. 165 Black haw and downy arrowwood and generously distributed in the shrub layer. 2013 V. A. Simeone Grow More with Less ii. 60/2 Arrowwood thrives in partial shade with plenty of drainage and moisture. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1578 |
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