| 单词 | mealy tree |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmealy tree mealy tree n. [after early modern German mälbaum (1552 in the source referred to in quot. 1640; German †Mehlbaum)] any of several viburnums characterized by the greyish pubescence of their twigs or the undersides of their leaves, esp. (more fully pliant mealy tree) the wayfaring tree, Viburnum lantana, of Eurasia. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > viburnums or guelder rose and allies > [noun] bendwithc1440 opier1548 opulus1548 ople1551 dwarf plane tree1578 water elder1578 whitten1578 guelder rose1597 rose elder1597 wayfaring man's tree1597 wayfaring tree1597 opiet1601 cotton tree1633 viorne1637 mealy tree1640 laurustinus1664 stinking tree1681 black haw1688 laurel-thyme1693 laurustine1693 viburnum1731 wayfaring shrub1731 May rose1753 pembina1760 snowball tree1760 mealtree1785 stink-tree1795 cherry-wood1821 snowball1828 sloe1846 withe-rod1846 lithy-tree1866 nannyberry1867 king's crown1879 stag bush1884 snowball bush1931 1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum xvi. xlii. 1449 I have therefore from Tragus his mealy tree, put to the pliantnesse of the twigges and branches, and called it the pliant mealy tree. 1671 S. Skinner Etymol. Linguæ Anglicanæ sig. Iiii3/1 The plant [sic] Mealy-tree, Viburnum, sic dictum, quia ejus folia, instar Farinæ, candida, mollia & tomentosa sunt. 1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 319 Mealy-tree, Pliant, Viburnum. 1813 H. Muhlenberg Catal. Plantarum Americæ Septentrionalis 32 Maple-leaved Mealy Tree (Viburnum acerifolium). 1940 E. Step Wayside & Woodland Trees 61 The local names for this shrub [sc. the wayfaring tree] include Mealy-tree, Whipcrop, Cotton-tree [etc.]. 1960 R. A. Vines Trees, Shrubs, & Woody Vines Southwest 964 Viburnum dentatum..is also known under the vernacular names of Southern Arrowwood, Mealy-tree. < as lemmas |
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