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单词 ocote
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ocoten.

Brit. /əˈkəʊti/, U.S. /əˈkoʊdi/
Forms: 1700s– ocote, 1800s– ocóte. Also with capital initial.
Origin: A borrowing from Spanish. Etymon: Spanish ocote.
Etymology: < Mexican Spanish and Central American Spanish ocote (1541 or earlier) < Nahuatl ocotl pine ( Pinus), torch or kindling made from this. In quot. 1787 translating Italian Ocote (1780).The Nahuatl form ocotl is also occasionally found in historical English contexts, with reference to the use made of it by the Aztecs. Compare:1787 C. Cullen tr. F. S. Clavigero Hist. Mexico I. vii. 431 The physicians held the goddess Tzapotlatenan..to have been the discoverer of many medicinal secrets, and amongst others of the oil which they extracted by distillation from the Ocotl.1962 P. O'Brian tr. J. Soustelle Daily Life Aztecs 123 Resinous torches of pine-wood (ocotl) were used indoors.
A pine tree of upland areas of Mexico and Central America, yielding very resinous wood; spec. Pinus oocarpa. Also: the wood of this tree. Frequently attributive.
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1787 C. Cullen tr. F. S. Clavigero Hist. Mexico I. i. 36 In this class of plants we ought to give a place to..the Ocote, a certain species of pine that is very aromatic.
1852 J. J. Williams Isthmus of Tehuantepec 93 I observed growing in great abundance either at San Miguel Chimalapa, or in its immediate vicinity, the ocote, guayacan, rose-wood, [etc.].
1888 Amer. Naturalist 22 389 There are at least three species [of pine]. One is the Ocóte, which is very rich in resin, and is used all over the country [sc. Guatemala] for light.
1888 Amer. Naturalist 22 389 On this [stone] a few finely-split sticks of Ocóte are kept burning.
1926 D. H. Lawrence Plumed Serpent vii. 129 The boy..sat apart watching the two ocote torches.
1949 Sci. Monthly Apr. 226/1 A couple of thousand feet of this parklike ocotal, and the ocote pine is replaced by another species, known locally as pinabete.
1957 Handbk. Softwoods (Forest Prod. Res. Lab.) 35 (note) Pinus oocarpa (ocote pine) may be included in consignments of Caribbean pitch pine from certain localities. It is known to have been shipped from the west coast of Nicaragua.
1988 Turrialba 38 97 Wood specific gravity (S.G.) was examined in 1981 in 15 ocote pine (Pinus oocarpa) trees (28-31 yr old) from the central Honduran highlands.
1989 C. Fuentes & A. MacAdam tr. C. Fuentes Christopher Unborn (1990) iv. v. 185 He..sat in a metal chair facing an ocote table finished in red lacquer.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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