单词 | peach tree |
释义 | peach treen. The tree Prunus persica, which bears peaches; = peach n.1 1. 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 > peach-tree peacha1400 peach treea1425 a1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Digby) 63 Ye shall put in þe wounde þe Ius of þe leves of a peche tree [c1425 Vesp. peochetre] ymenged wt quyckelyme. a1425 Medulla Gram. (Stonyhurst) f. 49 Persicus, a peche tre. 1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 48v The peche tre floureth with the almond tre. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage v. xii. 433 Like a Peach or Peare-tree. 1641 G. Fenwick Let. in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1863) 4th Ser. VI. 368 I am prettie well storred with chirrie & peach trees. 1698 in F. B. Bickley Catal. MSS & Munim. Dulwich (1903) 2nd Ser. 43 For 2 Peach Trees and an Apricot Tree..00 06 0. 1724 H. Jones Virginia 41 At the Plantations are standard Peach-Trees, and Apple-Trees, planted out in Orchards, on purpose almost for the Hogs. 1774 J. Bryant New Syst. II. 63 Perseus..is said..to have planted the peach tree at Memphis. 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xlii. 383 A fine villa..where there were beautiful graperies and peach-trees. 1861 Amer. Agriculturist July 210/2 It was said to ripen before the 15th of September, and to be perfectly hardy even in seasons where peach tree blossoms were destroyed by the cold of Winter. 1913 J. Masefield Daffodil Fields 45 That white cabin in the peach-tree plot. 1992 Spectator 19 Dec. 38/3 There were peach trees that had gone to hell, the fruit hard, green, furry and blighted, with black spots. Compounds peach tree borer n. either of two clearwing moths, Synanthedon exitiosa and S. pictipes, whose larvae bore through the bark of peach trees. ΚΠ 1850 New Eng. Farmer 2 74 Captain George Pierce..said that the peach-tree borer would stand scalding-hot water. 1892 V. L. Kellogg Common Injurious Insects Kansas 91 Peach-Tree Borer. (Ægeria exitiosa.)..the pest is an American insect, unknown on the peach trees of other countries. 2003 Dayton (Ohio) Daily News (Nexis) 3 July z1 The peach tree borer leaves an eighth-inch hole that usually oozes sticky, amber-colored sap. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1425 |
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