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单词 pennsylvania
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Pennsylvanian.

Brit. /ˌpɛns(ᵻ)lˈveɪnɪə/, U.S. /ˌpɛnsəlˈveɪnjə/
Forms: 1700s Pensilvania, 1700s– Pennsylvania.
Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Pennsylvania.
Etymology: < Pennsylvania, the name of one of the middle Atlantic states of the United States, named in 1681 < the name of William Penn (1644–1718) or of his father Admiral Sir William Penn (1621–70) + classical Latin sylvānus sylvan adj. + -ia -ia suffix1.
Used attributive in the names of things coming from, found in, or associated with Pennsylvania.
1. Designating varieties of plants characteristic of or growing in Pennsylvania.
a. Pennsylvania corn n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [noun] > cereal plants or corn
cornc897
vetchc1300
grainc1315
blade1553
Pennsylvania corn1739
cereal1868
1739 in Colonial Rec. Georgia (1905) III. 429 We all were disappointed by..planting the yellow Pensilvania Corn.
1838 H. Colman 1st Rep. Agric. Mass. (Mass. Agric. Surv.) 24 The storer of the Pennsylvania corn, which is a ground-seed variety would probably yield from a third to a half more than ours in weight.
2003 San Francisco Chron. (Nexis) 6 Aug. e4 Ikeda's California-produced corn is freeze-dried, the Ikeda people tell us, so it may not have the same toasty quality as the baked Pennsylvania corn.
b. Pennsylvania fir tree n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > North American trees or shrubs > [noun] > other North American trees or shrubs
black-gum1709
white gum1709
red fir1722
Quebec oak1768
Pennsylvania fir tree1770
Pennsylvania dwarf mountain maple1785
Pennsylvania mountain laurel1785
pepperbush1785
pepperbush1785
southern pine1796
titi1827
palo blanco1829
mock orange1860
palo fierro1860
mountain laurel1866
Joshua1867
red cedar1872
porkwood1884
guajillo1886
mountain balm1924
1770 J. R. Forster tr. P. Kalm Trav. N. Amer. I. 69 Pennsylvania Fir Tree (Pinus Amer.).
1997 San Antonio (Texas) Express-News (Nexis) 1 June 1 k The 3,000 twinkling lights, candy canes, fake snow, nativity scene and Pennsylvania fir trees they import each December.
c. Pennsylvania dwarf mountain maple n. Obsolete
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > North American trees or shrubs > [noun] > other North American trees or shrubs
black-gum1709
white gum1709
red fir1722
Quebec oak1768
Pennsylvania fir tree1770
Pennsylvania dwarf mountain maple1785
Pennsylvania mountain laurel1785
pepperbush1785
pepperbush1785
southern pine1796
titi1827
palo blanco1829
mock orange1860
palo fierro1860
mountain laurel1866
Joshua1867
red cedar1872
porkwood1884
guajillo1886
mountain balm1924
1785 H. Marshall Arbustrum Americanum 2 Acer pennsylvanicum,..Pennsylvania Dwarf Mountain Maple.
d. Pennsylvania mountain laurel n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > North American trees or shrubs > [noun] > other North American trees or shrubs
black-gum1709
white gum1709
red fir1722
Quebec oak1768
Pennsylvania fir tree1770
Pennsylvania dwarf mountain maple1785
Pennsylvania mountain laurel1785
pepperbush1785
pepperbush1785
southern pine1796
titi1827
palo blanco1829
mock orange1860
palo fierro1860
mountain laurel1866
Joshua1867
red cedar1872
porkwood1884
guajillo1886
mountain balm1924
1785 H. Marshall Arbustrum Americanum 127 Rhododendrum maximum, Pennsylvania Mountain Laurel.
1828 N. Amer. Rev. Oct. 353 He has enumerated some of these plants, which ought to be destroyed wherever they are seen, namely, dwarf-laurel, great laurel, kalmia latifolia, broad-leaved moor-wort, Pennsylvania mountain-laurel, wild honey-suckle.
1998 U.S. Banker (Nexis) Feb. Pennsylvania-based Mellon had its own..family of funds, called the Laurel Funds after Pennsylvania mountain laurel.
e. Pennsylvania ash n.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > ash
ashc1380
Pennsylvania ash1810
1810 P. Wakefield Excurs. N. Amer. (ed. 2) xxviii. 191 The black fir, the Weymouth pine, the red cedar, the common fir, the red maple, the Pennsylvania ash..are also common.
1987 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 19 Apr. i. 6/1 Major league baseball players slam home runs with bats made from Pennsylvania ash.
f. Pennsylvania wind flower n. Obsolete
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > buttercup and allied flowers > anemones
anemone1548
rose parsley1548
windflower1551
agrimony1578
hepatica1578
liverwort1578
noble agrimony1578
noble liverwort1578
pasque flower1578
Coventry bells1597
flaw-flower1597
herb trinity1597
pulsatilla1597
emony1644
wood-anemone1657
Robin Hood1665
poppy anemone1731
Alpine anemone1774
liverleaf1820
Japan anemone1847
Pennsylvania wind flower1869
smell fox1892
prairie smoke1893
prairie crocus1896
St. Brigid anemone1902
Japanese anemonec1908
Spanish marigold-
1869 J. G. Fuller Uncle John's Flower-gatherers 28 [The anemone] blooms later, in May and June, and is called the Pennsylvania Wind Flower.
g. Pennsylvania anemone n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > non-British flowers > North American
innocent1600
lychnidea1733
swamp lily1737
atamasco lily1743
phlox1754
lychnis1760
painted cup1776
mountain pink1818
phacelia1818
innocence1821
Nemophila1822
clarkia1827
Physostegia1830
bitter root1838
standing cypress1841
false mermaid1845
lion's heart1845
shooting star1856
lewisia1863
satin flower1871
fame-flower1879
baby blue-eyes1887
mayflower1892
agastache1900
obedient plant1900
Pennsylvania anemone1900
rock rose1906
Virginia bluebell1934
parsley1936
poached egg flower1963
poached eggs1971
poached egg plant1977
1900 B. B. Smyth Plants & Flowers Kansas ii. 54 On the low prairies may be found plenty of Pennsylvania anemone, a plant with..numerous branches, each terminated by a flower with five broad white sepals.
2.
a. Pennsylvania division n. a military division coming from or associated with Pennsylvania.
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society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > unit of army > named companies, regiments, etc. > [noun] > American
Pennsylvania division1779
blue hen's chicken (also chick)1840
Mormon battalion1847
teddy1917
1779 G. Washington Let. 26 Feb. in Writings (1936) XIV. 153 Gen. St. Clair with the Pennsylvania division, and Gen. Smallwood with the Maryland division, were put in motion by different routes, to form a junction at the Scotch Plains.
1892 Century Feb. 494/2 The practical instruction in mobilizing, transporting, and supplying the Pennsylvania division is invaluable to the staff.
2003 Denver Post (Nexis) 18 June b5 He served his country in World War II in the U.S. Army 109th Infantry and 28th Pennsylvania Division.
b. Pennsylvania wagon n. U.S. now historical a type of large covered wagon originating in Pennsylvania, a Conestoga wagon (cf. prairie schooner n.).
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > [noun]
carc1320
chara1400
charet?a1400
wagon1542
carry1600
rotan1676
messagerie1777
pillbox1789
bandy1791
Pennsylvania wagon1800
gharry1810
rath1813
vardo1819
rig1831
1800 A. S. Adams Let. 27 Nov. in Lett. Mrs. Adams (1841) (ed. 3) II. 243 We are now indebted to a Pennsylvania waggon to bring us, through the first clerk in the Treasury Office, one cord and a half of wood.
1891 S. M. Welch Recoll. Buffalo 1830–40 66 Enormous arks of the so-called ‘Pennsylvania Wagons’, driven with four to ten horses.
1990 Atlantic (Nexis) Oct. 4 Arnold tangled with the radicals..over..his improper use of Pennsylvania wagons to haul confiscated goods for his own profit.
c. Pennsylvania barn n. a barn of a type associated with Pennsylvania, or with the Pennsylvania Germans; esp. a two-storey bank barn constructed so that a vehicle may drive up to the entrance of the upper storey.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > storage or preservation of crops > [noun] > barn > types of
tithe barn1543
tithing barn1659
corn-house1699
Dutch barn1742
staddle barn1794
bank barn1804
staddle granary1816
Pennsylvania barn1823
grain-barn1844
1799 J. B. Bordley Ess. & Notes Husbandry 158 Farmers in Pennsylvania have a commendable spirit for building good barns.]
1823 Ohio Repository 11 Dec. 1/2 The convenience of feeding, has also been brought to aid the arguments in favour of a great Pennsylvania barn.
1936 J. Schafer Social Hist. Amer. Agric. 116 The big Pennsylvania barns were used for stabling cattle as well as horses.
2000 D. K. Meyer Making Heartland Quilt 227 Pennsylvania barns exemplify the attitudes and values of..Pennsylvania German farm families.
d. Pennsylvania salve n. U.S. slang a kind of thick, spreadable apple preserve; apple butter.
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the world > food and drink > food > additive > sauce or dressing > [noun] > fruit sauces
lemon sauce1747
cranberry sauce1767
black butter1775
apple buttera1813
Pennsylvania salve1899
Melba sauce1907
1899 ‘J. Flynt’ Tramping with Tramps iv. 396 Pennsylvania salve, apple-butter.
1917 Indiana (Pa.) Evening Gaz. 30 Oct. 1/1 We all filled up on buttermilk and believe me it was fine. We also had butter and Pennsylvania salve (apple butter).
1961 Pennsylvania Folklife 12 49 Pennsylvania salve.
e. Pennsylvania cap n. U.S. slang a recapped tyre with the tread line unbroken.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on wheels > [noun] > parts of vehicle moving on wheels > wheel > rubber or pneumatic tyre > types of
sidewall1901
non-skid1905
retread1909
remould1928
recap1929
knobbly1938
knobby1943
whitewall1950
slick1959
bias-ply1964
radial1964
cross-ply1965
snow1968
Pennsylvania cap1971
wet1977
1971 M. Tak Truck Talk 116 Pennsylvania caps, recapped tires with an unbroken tread line.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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