单词 | maire |
释义 | mairen.1 The chief municipal officer of a French town or city; (also) the chief municipal officer of one of the arrondissements or districts of Paris. ΚΠ 1790 H. Walpole Let. 30 Aug. (1905) XIV. 289 At Marseilles..a Monsieur Cazalet..had been invited to dine with the maire! a1861 A. H. Clough Poems & Prose Remains (1869) II. 403 Their maire, he said, could neither write nor read. 1900 C. M. Yonge Mod. Broods xiii. 121 She gabbled away most eloquently to the Maire, almost as fluently as a born Frenchwoman. 1955 Times 22 Aug. 8/6 As a record of continuous office-holding it is overshadowed by that of Edmond Mathis, maire of Ehuns in the Haute-Savoie from 1878 to 1953. 1964 C. Mackenzie My Life & Times III. i. 31 Monsieur Boeuf the maire, who looked exactly like his name. 1974 S. Sheldon Other Side of Midnight ii. 55 Let's get married by some maire in the country. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). mairen.2 Any of several New Zealand trees with heavy close-grained wood; esp. (a) either of two forest trees of the genus Nestegis (formerly Olea), of the family Oleaceae, N. cunninghamii (more fully black maire), a tall tree with dark wood, and N. lanceolata (more fully white maire); (b) Mida salicifolia, of the family Santalaceae, a forest tree with leathery leaves; (c) Syzygium (formerly Eugenia) maire, of the family Myrtaceae, a tree of swampy ground with edible red berries. Also: the wood of any of these trees. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > non-British timber trees > [noun] > Australasian tallow-tree1704 rata1773 rosewood1779 red mahogany1798 ironbark1799 wild orange1802 red gum1803 rewarewa1817 red cedar1818 black-butted gum1820 Huon pine1820 miro1820 oak1821 horoeka1831 hinau1832 maire1832 totara1832 blackbutt1833 marri1833 raspberry jam tree1833 kohekohe1835 puriri1835 tawa1839 hickory1840 whau1840 pukatea1841 titoki1842 butterbush1843 iron gum1844 York gum1846 mangeao1848 myall1848 ironheart1859 lilly-pilly1860 belah1862 flindosa1862 jarrah1866 silky oak1866 teak of New South Wales1866 Tolosa-wood1866 turmeric-tree1866 walking-stick palm1869 tooart1870 queenwood1873 tarairi1873 boree1878 yate1880 axe-breaker1884 bangalay1884 coachwood1884 cudgerie1884 feather-wood1884 forest mahogany1884 maiden's blush1884 swamp mahogany1884 tallow-wood1884 teak of New Zealand1884 wandoo1884 heartwood1885 ivorywood1887 Jimmy Low1887 Burdekin plum1889 corkwood1889 pigeon-berry ash1889 red beech1889 silver beech1889 turnip-wood1891 black bean1895 red bean1895 pinkwood1898 poplar1898 rose mahogany1898 quandong1908 lancewood1910 New Zealand honeysuckle1910 Queensland walnut1919 mahogany gum1944 Australian mahogany1948 1820 T. Kendall & S. Lee Gram. & Vocab. Lang. N.Z. 173 Maide, name of a certain tree.] 1832 London Med. Gaz. 18 Feb. 750/2 It [sc. a New Zealand tree] is named Maire by the natives... The wood..is used in the manufacture of war-clubs, paddles, &c. 1835 W. Yate Acct. N.Z. (ed. 2) 41 Mairi—a tree of the Podocarpus species, growing from forty to sixty feet high. 1838 J. S. Polack New Zealand II. 397 Maire or maide, (cedrus Zelandicae,) is the closest grained and toughest of woods in the country. 1853 J. D. Hooker Bot. Antarctic Voy.: Flora Novæ-Zelandiæ I. 224 Santalum Cunninghamii..Nat. name, ‘Maire’.. . This plant is not the ‘Mida’ of the New Zealander, as Mr Colenso assures me, but the ‘Maire’, and closely resembles Eugenia Maire, the ‘Maire Tawake’. 1875 T. Kirk Rep. Durability N.Z. Timber in N.Z. Govt. Rep. Durability N.Z. Timber 21 Black maire..is sometimes 40 feet high or more. 1882 W. D. Hay Brighter Britain! II. 193 The Maire-Tawhake (Eugenia maire), or ‘White Maire’. 1901 N.Z. Illustr. Mag. 4 596 He cut up a lot of maire backlogs. 1926 J. Devanny Butcher Shop xviii. 222 Ian was seated by a window which looked out upon a near paddock creeping up to a clump of maire. 1969 T. H. Everett Living Trees of World 288/1 The maire (O. cunninghamii) and white maire (O. lanceolata) of New Zealand produce lumber used for cabinetwork, turnery, construction, and railroad cars. 1973 F. Sargeson Once is Enough 63 Miles promised to take me to a part of the bush where the trees were nearly all maire, and there were pigeons feeding in hundreds on the maire berries. 1986 J. T. Salmon Field Guide Native Trees N.Z. 290 The wood of white maire is tough and durable, like that of black maire. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.11790n.21832 |
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