| 单词 | mountain balsam |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmountain balsam mountain balsam n. U.S. †(a) a yerba santa, Eriodictyon californicum (family Hydrophyllaceae); cf. mountain balm n. 3 (obsolete); (b) the Alpine fir, Abies lasiocarpa; (also) the Fraser fir, A. fraseri. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > conifers > [noun] > fir-tree spurch1295 firc1381 fir-treea1382 mast tree1597 white fir1605 Scotch fir1673 silver fir1707 Scotchman1807 fir balsam1810 Alpine fir1819 deal treea1825 pinsapo1839 fir-pine1843 red fir1852 grand fir1874 mountain balsam1878 Shasta fir1897 Santa Lucia fir1905 1875 Amer. Naturalist 9 204 My attention was particularly directed to the two species of Rocky mountain balsam, Abies grandis Lindl., and Abies concolor Engel. ined.] 1878 Bot. Gaz. 3 86 One of the newest of the vegetable drugs is obtained from the Yerba santa, a shrub known also as gum-weed, mountain balsam, wild peach, and bears' weed. 1897 G. B. Sudworth Nomencl. Arborescent Flora U.S. 53 Abies lasiocarpa... Mountain balsam. 1916 G. B. Sudworth Spruce & Balsam fir Trees 24 Woodsmen and settlers usually call it [sc. the alpine fir] ‘balsam’ or ‘mountain balsam’. 1937 L. Thornburgh Great Smoky Mountains 132 The mountain balsam [sc. the Fraser fir] we call ‘she-balsam’. < as lemmas |
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