单词 | pear tree |
释义 | pear treen. 1. a. The tree from which pears are obtained, Pyrus communis. Also with distinguishing word: any of several related trees. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > pear-tree perryOE pear tree1230 pearc1390 perer?a1425 warden-tree?1523 orchard pear tree1562 pyrus1567 willow-leaved pear1820 nashi1892 1230 in Publ. Pipe Roll Soc. (1927) IV. 327 (MED) Ricardus de Peretre. 1281 in W. Illingworth Rotuli Hundredorum (1818) II. 638 (MED) Emma ate Peretre. a1325 Gloss. W. de Bibbesworth (Cambr.) (1929) 671 (MED) En ceo verger des arbres creissent, Par charge des fruiz le uns abesent: Pomer, perere [glossed] peretre. c1350 Nominale (Cambr. Ee.4.20) in Trans. Philol. Soc. (1906) 20* Nomina arborum..Appultre peretre [Fr. perere] and assche. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 37 Of gode pertre coms god peres; Wers tre, vers fruit it beres. 1469 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 46 (MED) I will that the seid Denyse have halle the gardyn..from the kechyn doore on to the pertre, and from the pertre onto westend of the bakhows..and the frute of the seid pertre. a1500 Lady who buried Host (Cambr. Ff.2.38) 75 in C. H. Hartshorne Anc. Metrical Tales (1829) 139 (MED) Be this the pere tre was growen alle grene Wyth perys rype and downe can falle. 1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Mar. 111 Crowes..That in our Peeretree haunted. 1615 R. Hamor True Disc. Present Estate Virginia 23 There being in Sir Thomas Gates his garden at Iamestown, many forward apple & peare trees come vp, of the kernels set the yeere before. 1670 J. Evelyn Pomona viii. 24 in Sylva (ed. 2) Useful is the Pear-Tree..for its excellent colour'd Timber, hard and levigable..especially for Stools, Tables [etc.]. 1725 M. Davys Reform'd Coquet 25 Did you ever see a finer Goldfinch in your Life than that Cock in the Pear-Tree? 1770 G. White Jrnl. 22 Mar. (1970) iii. 24 Blossom-buds of the pear-trees seem to be injured by the frost. 1820 Bot. Reg. 6 514 (heading) Willow-leaved pear-tree. 1861 Amer. Agriculturist Jan. 25/2 I have a large Bartlett pear tree which has persisted year by year in making a most rampant growth. 1929 E. Hemingway Farewell to Arms viii. 47 We passed stone farmhouses with pear trees candelabraed against their south walls. 1994 Amateur Gardening 30 July 36/1 Cordon-trained apple and pear trees must be pruned in the summer. b. Chiefly with distinguishing word: any of various unrelated plants bearing fruits thought to resemble the garden pear in some way. Cf. pear n. 3.garlic, saffraan, wooden pear tree, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > tropical or exotic fruit-tree or -plant > names applied to various types Indian plum1636 bread tree1640 pear tree1696 pine1696 wild mango1813 1696 H. Sloane Catal. Plantarum in Jamaica 186 Prunifera arbor, fructu maximo pyriformi viridi... The Avocado or Allegator Pear-tree. 1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. ii. 238 The larger erect Indian Fig, or Dildo Pear Tree. 1805 J. H. Tuckey Acct. Voy. to establish Colony Port Philip 228 The pear-tree is so called from its bearing a fruit resembling a pear in shape, but of the hardness of wood. 1852 G. C. Mundy Our Antipodes II. 26 The pear-tree..bears a pear of solid wood. 1953 Cape Argus 28 Feb. (Mag.) 3/7 Near the fountain were some high Saffraan pear trees. 1965 Austral. Encycl. VII. 42 Terminalia platyphylla is called pear-tree in tropical north-western Australia. 1998 B. Kingsolver Poisonwood Bible (1999) ii. 122 I showed Leah where you could get into the alligator pear tree and she boosted me up. 2. The wood of Pyrus communis; pearwood. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > wood of fruit trees > pear pear treec1350 pearwood1730 pear1831 c1350 Nominale (Cambr. Ee.4.20) in Trans. Philol. Soc. (1906) 12* M[an]. may a webbe warpe..On a stake of pere-tre [Fr. perer]. 1570 in V. Chinnery Oak Furnit. (1979) 303 My leaf table of peartree. 1600 in V. Chinnery Oak Furnit. (1979) 162 A peartree cubberd. 1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. ii. xvi. 92 Smooth dry Box Wood or Pear-tree. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Almacantar-staff, a Mathematical Instrument usually made of Box or Pear-tree. 1764 C. F. Esberger Jrnl. 17 Aug. (1902) 17 Breakfast at Mr. Bassnip's, who made us a present also of a large pear-tree table. 1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 134 Pieces of pear-tree or box. 1875 G. Hart Violin (1880) 43 The sides were also made in a similar manner, the wood used being both sycamore and that known to makers as pear-tree. 1934 Times 17 Nov. 9 (advt.) Cabinet in a very beautiful Indian Laurel, Walnut and Peartree. Compounds pear tree leaf n. ΚΠ 1731 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 37 38 The Leaves of Trees, as..Apple and Pear-tree Leaves. 1848 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 138 271 With pear-tree leaves, the ratio [of water loss from upper and lower surfaces] was 8·45 to 7·75 per cent. 1997 Off Licence News (Nexis) 12 Sept. 16 The Russian recipe is far more elaborate, adding brandy, port and an infusion of apple and pear tree leaves from Crimea to a base of grain vodka. ΚΠ tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) iii. 701 (MED) The pertre [v.r. peretree] plaunte is sette in places colde At feueryeer. pear tree wood n. ΚΠ 1527 L. Andrewe tr. H. Brunschwig Vertuose Boke Distyllacyon i. v. sig. aivv/1 Ye sholde haue an instrumente of yron or Nut tre or Peer tre wode. 1840 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 3 163 Book-printing was at first executed by means of wood tables (made of hard box wood, or pear-tree wood), in which the alphabet was cut out. 1992 J. C. Evans Tea in China vi. 47 A roller made of orange tree wood or pear tree wood. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1230 |
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