negroheadn.

Brit.

/ˈniːɡrəʊhɛd/, U.S.

/ˈniɡroʊˌhɛd/

Forms: also with capital initial.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: Negro n., head n.¹

Etymology: < Negro n. + head n.¹ Compare earlier Negro's head n. at Negro n. and adj. Compounds 3. Compare also niggerhead n.In sense 4 apparently after Spanish cabeça de negro (see quot. 1877 at sense 4). Compare French tête de nègre (19th cent. in different senses, but compare quot. 1781 at sense 1). It is uncertain what is denoted by negroes-head in the following:a1706 J. Evelyn Sylva (1776) i. i. 7 Aborigines [i.e. indigenous plants] descended immediately from the genius of the soils, climate.., and (like the Negroes-heads in the Barbadoes) as some imagine, even without seed, or at least any perceptible rudiment.

1. The round, dark nest constructed in trees by certain species of termite (genus Nasutitermes). rare.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > ant > that live in or frequent trees > nest of tree-ants

negrohead1781

1781 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 71 161 (note) The colour of these nests..is black, from which, and their irregular surface and orbicular shape, they have been called Negro Heads by our first writers on the Carribbee Islands, and by the French, Tetes des Negres.

1935 K. C. McKeown Insect Wonders Austral. xvii. 140 Sometimes [termite] nests are built high in the branches of trees, with mud-covered runways built against the trunk, providing access to the ground. These are known as ‘Negro Head’ nests.

2. Australian. A large, usually rounded and blackened lump of coral projecting or detached from a reef; = niggerhead n. 2.

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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > rock formations > [noun] > niggerhead or woolpack

negrohead1814

niggerhead1847

woolpack1848

1814 M. Flinders Voy. Terra Australis II. ii. iv. 85 Upon these reefs were more of the dry, black lumps, called negro heads.

1859 Austral. Directory II. 275 At low tides the edges of the reefs are nearly level with the water. with large masses of black coral rock (those appropriately termed negro heads by Capt. Flinders) strewed over some of them.

1910 F. Wood-Jones Coral & Atolls xxiv. 284 There are many enormous ‘negro heads’ upon the windward barrier flats of the Southern islands of the Cocos-Keeling atoll.

1931 J. S. Gardiner Coral Reefs & Atolls 7 Corals are broken off to be swept perchance on to an island shore behind, and fractured rock masses may be cast on to the reef as giant sentinels or ‘negroheads’.

1963 D. W. Humphries & E. E. Humphries tr. H. Termier & G. Termier Erosion & Sedimentation xiii. 280 Reefs are broken into blocks, the large mushroom-shaped fragments are thrown up onto the beaches, where they form ‘negro~heads’.

3. More fully negrohead tobacco. A strong dark plug tobacco.

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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > [noun] > types of plug tobacco

negrohead1809

niggerhead1843

navy plug1867

navy1872

1809 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. II. vi. ii. 88 He..thrust a prodigious quid of negro head tobacco into his left cheek.

1839 ‘J. Fume’ Paper on Tobacco 116 A few iron nerved smokers occasionally take a pipe of negrohead.

1861 C. Dickens Great Expectations III. i. 10 A handful of loose tobacco of the kind that is called Negro-head.

1892 W. Pike Barren Ground N. Canada 29 The Hudson's Bay negrohead tobacco is..much improved, as well as economized, by a mixture with either of these substances.

1928 ‘Brent of Bin Bin’ Up Country (1966) ii. 16 The Stantons and Saunders had dealt peaceably with the blacks, buying the land for some gaily coloured shirts, tomahawks, negro head and flour.

1950 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. A. 113 494 Tobacco manufactured in bond is sometimes termed ‘cavendish’ or ‘negrohead’.

1999 I. Tyrrell Deadly Enemies i. i. 12 Nailrod was a type of rolled tobacco, Shag a coarse cut, Negrohead a twist, and Honey Dew a pipe tobacco sweetened with molasses.

†4. India rubber of an inferior quality. Obsolete.

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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > rubber > [noun] > inferior

negrohead1877

1877 Scribner's Monthly Dec. 183/2 This last [sc. quality of rubber] the so called semamby or Cabeça de negro (negro-head),—consists of the drops picked up at the foot of the trees and the remnants of sap scraped from bowls and pots.

1881 Encycl. Brit. XIII. 836/2 The scrapings from the tree..are mixed with the residues of the collecting pots.., and are made up into large rounded balls, which form the inferior commercial quality called ‘negrohead.’

1896 Daily News 4 Apr. 2/1 The proportions of ‘fine’ and ‘negrohead’ rubbers depend on the appliances and care of the collectors.

5. Negrohead beech n. Australian the Australian beech, Nothofagus moorei (see quot. 1922); (also) the timber of this tree.

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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > beech or beeches > [noun]

American beecha800

beecha800

beech-treec1450

weeping beech1606

red beech1789

southern beech1839

copper-beech1846

mastwort1846

red beech1882

Negrohead beech1884

stone-beech1884

mountain beech1886

Nothofagus1896

Southland beech1918

1884 A. Nilson Timber Trees New S. Wales 78 Negrohead Beech.—A beautiful tree, attaining a height of 150 feet and a diameter of 4 feet.

1889 J. H. Maiden Useful Native Plants Austral. 535 Negro-head Beech..is a hard richly-coloured furniture wood, and the warty protuberances on the trunk..afford a most beautiful figure.

1922 J. H. Maiden Forest Flora New S. Wales VII. 365 Nothofagus Moorei..‘True or Negro-head Beech’ of New South Wales, the latter name being given owing to the rich dark colour of the foliage.

1981 H. Hannah Together in Jungle Scrub 75 Rainforest trees are now rare, especially the Negrohead Beech, which was once on Comboyne.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	negrohead
释义	negroheadn. Brit. /ˈniːɡrəʊhɛd/, U.S. /ˈniɡroʊˌhɛd/ Forms: also with capital initial. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: Negro n., head n.¹ Etymology: < Negro n. + head n.¹ Compare earlier Negro's head n. at Negro n. and adj. Compounds 3. Compare also niggerhead n.In sense 4 apparently after Spanish cabeça de negro (see quot. 1877 at sense 4). Compare French tête de nègre (19th cent. in different senses, but compare quot. 1781 at sense 1). It is uncertain what is denoted by negroes-head in the following:a1706 J. Evelyn Sylva (1776) i. i. 7 Aborigines [i.e. indigenous plants] descended immediately from the genius of the soils, climate.., and (like the Negroes-heads in the Barbadoes) as some imagine, even without seed, or at least any perceptible rudiment. 1. The round, dark nest constructed in trees by certain species of termite (genus Nasutitermes). rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > ant > that live in or frequent trees > nest of tree-ants negrohead1781 1781 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 71 161 (note) The colour of these nests..is black, from which, and their irregular surface and orbicular shape, they have been called Negro Heads by our first writers on the Carribbee Islands, and by the French, Tetes des Negres. 1935 K. C. McKeown Insect Wonders Austral. xvii. 140 Sometimes [termite] nests are built high in the branches of trees, with mud-covered runways built against the trunk, providing access to the ground. These are known as ‘Negro Head’ nests. 2. Australian. A large, usually rounded and blackened lump of coral projecting or detached from a reef; = niggerhead n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > rock formations > [noun] > niggerhead or woolpack negrohead1814 niggerhead1847 woolpack1848 1814 M. Flinders Voy. Terra Australis II. ii. iv. 85 Upon these reefs were more of the dry, black lumps, called negro heads. 1859 Austral. Directory II. 275 At low tides the edges of the reefs are nearly level with the water. with large masses of black coral rock (those appropriately termed negro heads by Capt. Flinders) strewed over some of them. 1910 F. Wood-Jones Coral & Atolls xxiv. 284 There are many enormous ‘negro heads’ upon the windward barrier flats of the Southern islands of the Cocos-Keeling atoll. 1931 J. S. Gardiner Coral Reefs & Atolls 7 Corals are broken off to be swept perchance on to an island shore behind, and fractured rock masses may be cast on to the reef as giant sentinels or ‘negroheads’. 1963 D. W. Humphries & E. E. Humphries tr. H. Termier & G. Termier Erosion & Sedimentation xiii. 280 Reefs are broken into blocks, the large mushroom-shaped fragments are thrown up onto the beaches, where they form ‘negro~heads’. 3. More fully negrohead tobacco. A strong dark plug tobacco. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > [noun] > types of plug tobacco negrohead1809 niggerhead1843 navy plug1867 navy1872 1809 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. II. vi. ii. 88 He..thrust a prodigious quid of negro head tobacco into his left cheek. 1839 ‘J. Fume’ Paper on Tobacco 116 A few iron nerved smokers occasionally take a pipe of negrohead. 1861 C. Dickens Great Expectations III. i. 10 A handful of loose tobacco of the kind that is called Negro-head. 1892 W. Pike Barren Ground N. Canada 29 The Hudson's Bay negrohead tobacco is..much improved, as well as economized, by a mixture with either of these substances. 1928 ‘Brent of Bin Bin’ Up Country (1966) ii. 16 The Stantons and Saunders had dealt peaceably with the blacks, buying the land for some gaily coloured shirts, tomahawks, negro head and flour. 1950 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. A. 113 494 Tobacco manufactured in bond is sometimes termed ‘cavendish’ or ‘negrohead’. 1999 I. Tyrrell Deadly Enemies i. i. 12 Nailrod was a type of rolled tobacco, Shag a coarse cut, Negrohead a twist, and Honey Dew a pipe tobacco sweetened with molasses. †4. India rubber of an inferior quality. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > rubber > [noun] > inferior negrohead1877 1877 Scribner's Monthly Dec. 183/2 This last [sc. quality of rubber] the so called semamby or Cabeça de negro (negro-head),—consists of the drops picked up at the foot of the trees and the remnants of sap scraped from bowls and pots. 1881 Encycl. Brit. XIII. 836/2 The scrapings from the tree..are mixed with the residues of the collecting pots.., and are made up into large rounded balls, which form the inferior commercial quality called ‘negrohead.’ 1896 Daily News 4 Apr. 2/1 The proportions of ‘fine’ and ‘negrohead’ rubbers depend on the appliances and care of the collectors. 5. Negrohead beech n. Australian the Australian beech, Nothofagus moorei (see quot. 1922); (also) the timber of this tree. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > beech or beeches > [noun] American beecha800 beecha800 beech-treec1450 weeping beech1606 red beech1789 southern beech1839 copper-beech1846 mastwort1846 red beech1882 Negrohead beech1884 stone-beech1884 mountain beech1886 Nothofagus1896 Southland beech1918 1884 A. Nilson Timber Trees New S. Wales 78 Negrohead Beech.—A beautiful tree, attaining a height of 150 feet and a diameter of 4 feet. 1889 J. H. Maiden Useful Native Plants Austral. 535 Negro-head Beech..is a hard richly-coloured furniture wood, and the warty protuberances on the trunk..afford a most beautiful figure. 1922 J. H. Maiden Forest Flora New S. Wales VII. 365 Nothofagus Moorei..‘True or Negro-head Beech’ of New South Wales, the latter name being given owing to the rich dark colour of the foliage. 1981 H. Hannah Together in Jungle Scrub 75 Rainforest trees are now rare, especially the Negrohead Beech, which was once on Comboyne. 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