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单词 peach wood
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peach woodn.

Brit. /ˈpiːtʃ wʊd/, U.S. /ˈpitʃ ˌwʊd/
Forms: see peach n.1 and adj. and wood n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: peach n.1, wood n.1
Etymology: < peach n.1 + wood n.1
1. A red dyewood obtained from certain tropical American trees of the family Caesalpiniaceae ( Leguminosae), esp. Caesalpinia echinata. Also called Nicaragua wood, Pernambuco wood.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > [noun] > woods of specific colour or dye-woods
red sandalwood?c1510
redwooda1533
whitewood1562
red sanderswood1598
sapan wood1598
peach woodc1638
Campeachy wood1652
coral-wood1693
Nicaragua wood1696
cam-wood1699
Guinea wood1722
Nicaragua1756
barwood1788
ruby wood1843
sap pan1874
the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > red colouring matter > [noun] > dyes and dyestuffs
madderOE
grain1335
alkanet1343
Brazilc1386
crop-maddera1399
red-scarletc1400
alcanna?a1425
lac?c1425
madder root?c1450
incarnationa1475
jarecork1483
orchil1483
mull1507
orcanet1548
Bristol-red1551
red sanders1553
cochineal1582
safflower1583
chay1588
Pernambuco1595
red sanderswood1598
redwood1634
peach woodc1638
scarlet1653
mesteque1667
bow-dye1676
sylvester1697
corkir1703
gamene1703
orchilla1703
crap1721
saffranon1731
kino1788
Turkey red1789
lizary1791
granilla1812
munjeet1813
rubiate1835
orcein1838
purpurin1839
ruby wood1843
sassafrid1852
aal1853
pink salt1853
magenta1860
fuchsine1865
paeonin1865
safranine1868
corallin1873
marina1874
Magdala red1875
alizarin1878
eosin1879
Turkey red oil1879
roccelline1880
ponceau1885
amarant1888
phloxine1890
hypernic1897
Turkish red1900
Lithol red1930
c1638 Forme Courts of Admiraltie in Tractatus Legum Navalium 66 Petche wood is for hitting reed but not so reed as Brazill wood.
1772 Philos. Trans. 1771 (Royal Soc.) 61 125 Silk may be dyed of a fine crimson colour, by its means, with the addition of brazil wood, peach wood, or braziletto.
1822 T. Webster Imison's Elem. Sci. & Art (new ed.) II. 186 Peach-wood gives a colour inferior to Brazil.
1858 I. S. Homans & I. S. Homans Cycl. Commerce & Commerc. Navigation 1443/1 Nicaragua, or peach-woods, differ greatly in their quality as well as price.
1882 W. Crookes Dyeing & Tissue-printing 134 The second peachwood beck may be saved and used for the first peachwood steep of the next lot.
1931 Isis 23 406 The numerous dye-woods, such as log-wood, peach wood, Brazil-wood, fustic, etc..., were all employed by the aborigines who taught the Europeans their properties and uses.
2001 P. Ball Bright Earth vi. 155 From Central America came a new kind of cochineal, along with abundant brazilwood and the related species fernambuco and peachwood.
2. The wood of the peach, Prunus persica.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > wood of fruit trees > others
service tree1545
cornel-wood1600
manchineel1683
bois d'arc1805
apple1815
crab-wood1849
peach wood1850
plum1902
persimmon1989
1850 U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. Mar. 220 A theory..has been proposed by a very intelligent man, who is a close observer of cause and effect, in whose hands the peach wood [divining] rod works well.
1892 Harper's Mag. Dec. 4/2 The district magistrates have..now always peach-wood figures at their doors.
1941 Monumenta Nipponica 4 365 The stones of peaches..are scattered about in order to drive out demonic evil. Staves of peach-wood were once used for the same purpose.
2003 Consumers' Res. Mag. (Nexis) 1 Mar. 36 Commercial growers use trees that are budded on peach wood, which produces good fruit.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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