单词 | moosewood |
释义 | moosewoodn. North American. Any of various North American shrubs and trees popularly associated with moose; spec. (a) the leatherwood, Dirca palustris; (b) the striped maple, Acer pensylvanicum; (c) the hobblebush, Viburnum lantanoides. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > maples > [noun] maple treeOE maplec1385 plane tree1562 great maple1597 sycamore-tree1597 sycamore1598 sugar-tree1705 sugar maple1731 red maple1767 scarlet maple1768 rock maple1774 white maple1774 silk wood1775 moosewood1778 mountain maple1785 box elder1787 acer1793 sycamore maple1796 mock plane1797 Montpellier maple1797 water maple1803 soft maple1806 sugar-wood1809 swamp maple1810 low maple1813 maple bush1821 Neapolitan maple1833 snake-bark1838 moose-maple1839 sap-tree1843 Manitoba maple1887 Japanese maple1898 curly maple1909 Queensland maple1915 paperbark maple1927 Amur maple1934 the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > non-British shrubs > [noun] > North-American wild tea1728 bastard indigo1730 mountain heath1731 groundsel-tree1736 amorpha1751 buttonbush1754 moosewood1778 pipestem wood1791 modesty1809 sand myrtle1814 wicopy1823 lead-plant1833 false indigo1841 sleek-leaf1845 arrow weed1848 rabbit bush1852 ribbonwood1860 rabbit brush1877 sea myrtle1883 pencil tree1884 tar-bush1884 ocean spray1906 1778 J. Carver Trav. N.-Amer. 507 The Moose Wood grows about four feet high, and is very full of branches. 1792 J. Belknap Hist. New-Hampsh. III. 163 He [sc. the Moose] feeds on..a species of the maple, which is called moose-wood. 1848 A. Gray Man. Bot. Northern U.S. 395 Dirca, L. Leatherwood. Moose-wood. a1862 H. D. Thoreau Maine Woods (1864) iii. 284 I stirred the soup by accident with a striped maple or moose-wood stick. 1890 W. J. Gordon Foundry 116 His poultices will be the bark of the moose wood boiled till it is soft. 1892 Jrnl. Amer. Folk-lore 5 97 Viburnum lantanoides, Moosewood. 1942 C. J. Hylander World of Plant Life 402 Leatherwood (Dirca), also known as Moosewood; this is a deciduous shrub of damp woods from New England to Louisiana. 1969 T. H. Everett Living Trees of World 222/2 Conspicuous in winter because of its white-striped bark, the moosewood (A. pennsylvanicum) inhabits open woods throughout eastern North America. 1993 Independent on Sunday 10 Oct. (Review Suppl.) 99/1 Another group grown chiefly for their bark are the snakebark maples—moosewood is among the best. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1778 |
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