单词 | oleaster |
释义 | oleastern. 1. An olive plant of the wild variety Olea europaea var. oleaster, with more or less spiny branches and small inedible fruit. Also called wild olive. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > trees or plants bearing stone fruit > olive tree > types of oleastereOE olive treea1398 wild olive1577 olive1629 olive bark1668 black olive1756 manzanilla1891 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > trees or plants bearing stone fruit > olive tree > types of > oleasters oleaster1731 oleaster1824 Russian olive1886 wolf-willow1889 eOE Bald's Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) i. xxxvii. 90 Gecnuwa lufestice & ellenrinde & oleastrum, þæt is, wilde elebeam. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 237 Olyaster is a wilde olyf tre and haþ þat name for he is lich to þe olyf tre, but leues þerof ben braddere and þis tree is bareyn & bitter and nouȝt y-tiled. tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) iv. 115 Bareyn yf thin oliaster be. 1535 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (rev. ed.) Table Oleaster. 1582 S. Batman Vppon Bartholome, De Proprietatibus Rerum xvii. cxi. f. 306v/2 Theyr victours should be crowned with Oliaster, as hee sayth. 1617 Despauterii Grammaticæ Institutionis Lib. VII (new ed.) 8 Oleaster, a wilde oliue tree. 1671 W. Salmon Synopsis Medicinæ iii. xxii. 414 Oleaster..wilde Olive-tree. 1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Olea The Oleaster is very hardy, and will endure the severest Cold of our Climate. 1855 R. C. Singleton tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. I. 185 Let the palm, Or a huge oleaster th' outer court O'ershadow. 1874 F. W. Farrar Life Christ (1881) 212 He had found in the oleaster what He had not found in the olive. 1960 Science 19 Aug. 442/2 In the areas covered with palmetto scrub there are scattered specimens of holly oak.., deciduous oaks..and the oleaster or wild olive tree (Olea europaea var. oleaster). 1996 P. Reading Idyllic in Coll. Poems 1985–96 276 Two bushes grafted together, olive with wild oleaster, through which the rain-laden wind could never penetrate. 2. Any of several shrubs or small trees of the genus Elaeagnus (family Elaeagnaceae), chiefly native to western Asia and southern Europe, which resemble the oleaster in their narrow silvery leaves; esp. the Russian olive, E. angustifolia, and E. latifolia. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > trees or plants bearing stone fruit > olive tree > types of > oleasters oleaster1731 oleaster1824 Russian olive1886 wolf-willow1889 1824 J. C. London Encycl. Gardening Index 1187/2 Elæagnus, oleaster. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 443/1 Elæagnus, the Oleaster or Wild Olive tree. 1900 W. Robinson Eng. Flower Garden (ed. 8) 539/1 Several of the Oleasters [sc. Elaeagnus spp.] all beautiful shrubs, and deserve to be much more widely cultivated than they are now. 1920 Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 47 477 The form described here as a new species [of rust fungus] was found in considerable abundance on a hedge of the Eurasian oleaster in the town of Kulm [in North Dakota]. 1996 Chiltern Seeds Catal. 93 Oleaster, Russian Olive. Wind resistant, quick growing, deciduous shrub with silvery foliage and fragrant flowers. CompoundsΚΠ 1857 E. Balfour Cycl. India 1354/2 Oleaster Plum, Elœagnus conferta. This sour red plum makes good tarts and jellies, and abounds in some parts of the Tenasserim jungle. Derivatives oleˈastral adj. rare = oleastrial adj.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [adjective] > of or having olive-trees oleastrial1602 olived1749 oleastral1902 1902 N.E.D. at Oleaster Oleastral. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [adjective] > of or having olive-trees oleastrial1602 olived1749 oleastral1902 1602 W. Watson Decacordon Ten Quodlibeticall Questions 81 Seditious factions, and vnnaturall dispositions, sprong out of oleastriall graffes amongst us. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.eOE |
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