单词 | osage orange hedge |
释义 | > as lemmasOsage orange hedge General attributive, as Osage orange hedge, Osage orange plant, Osage orange tree, etc. ΚΠ 1846 D. J. Browne Trees Amer. 465 (heading) The Osage Orange-Tree. 1857 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1856–7 2 23 The practicability of successfully cultivating the Osage Orange plant into a protective hedge. 1859 R. B. Marcy Prairie Traveler i. 26 Wheels made of the bois d'arc, or Osage-orange wood, are the best for the plains, as they shrink but little. 1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 245 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV The Osage orange thorn..appears to be a more promising material for hedges than any other upon which experiments have been made. 1890 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 60 We had three miles of osage orange hedges. 1940 E. Fergusson Our Southwest ix. 157 Mrs. Hayden found a stately adobe house with water piped in, an osage orange hedge around an orchard. 1981 Ann. Assoc. Amer. Geographers 71 505 That spring D. C. and T. N. Sanders, as agents of the Illinois firm, advertised Osage orange plants. 1998 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 31 May 36/3 Barbed wire was meant to substitute for the prickly limbs of the slow-growing Osage orange hedgerows once planted in Midwestern states. < as lemmas |
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