单词 | nut tree |
释义 | nut treen. A tree that bears nuts; esp. the hazel, Corylus avellana. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > [noun] > nut-tree nut treea1393 nutbeam1412–13 nut-bush?c1475 a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iv. 867 Phillis in the same throwe Was schape into a Notetre. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 236a/b Þe note tree [L. nux arbor] is hihe and longe, wiþ large bowes and knottes and wiþ brode leues. ?a1425 (c1400) Mandeville's Trav. (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 192 Þere ben note trees þat beren notes all grete as a mannes hed. tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) iii. 899 (MED) So in ordre ley hem [sc. apples] on a tabull, And nuttre leuis vnder wol not harme. ?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 87v A Nutte tre, corulus. 1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 53v The Nut tree may be called and that very aptlie, an iniurious and vnquiet neighbour. 1598 W. Phillip tr. J. H. van Linschoten Disc. Voy. E. & W. Indies i. iv. 8/2 Therein growe many Indian palmes or nut trees. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xv. xiii. 437 Those Plums..that are graffed in Nut-tree stocks. 1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. J. Albert de Mandelslo in Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors (1669) 119 The Mangas grow on Trees not much unlike our Nut-trees. 1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture I. 27/1 The Nut Tree..is extremely tractable, and good for..Boards or Planks. 1766 A. Williams Misc. 52 The squirrel climbs the nut tree bough, And strips the clusters as they grow. 1799 R. Lawrence tr. J. W. von Goethe Gortz of Berligen iii. 87 How shall we save ourselves! we may escape from the walls to the nut-tree, and so down into the field. 1839 W. Irving Mountjoy in Knickerbocker Dec. 404 The squirrel, from his nut-tree, would gaze at me for an instant, with sparkling eye. 1884 A. Nilson Timber Trees New S. Wales Index 138 Nut tree, Macadamia ternifolia. Proteaceae. 1934 Amer. Home Mar. 179–h/2 (advt.) Commercial and ornamental early bearing nut trees. 1986 M. Hughes Dream Catcher vi. 86 An occasional nut tree spread its broad limbs and made an open space for itself. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1393 |
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