单词 | pitch tree |
释义 | pitch treen. A spruce tree (genus Picea). Also: any of various other coniferous trees that yield resin. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > conifers > [noun] > pines and allies > pitch-pines hard pine1531 pitch tree1538 torch-tree1601 pitch pine1662 piceaster1664 pitch1674 pitch fir1726 swamp pine1851 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Picea, a piche tree. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 95 The Pitche tree is called in Greeke πευκη, in Latine Picea, in Italian Pezzo. 1589 in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations iii. 730 Their boates are made of one tree, either of Pine, or of Pitch trees: a wood not commonly knowen to our people, nor found growing in England. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xvi. xlii. 493 Pines, Pitch trees, and Allar, are very good for to make..conduit-pipes to convey water. 1678 W. Salmon tr. Pharmacopœia Londinensis i. viii. 170 Burgundy Pitch..is the Rosin of the Pitch-Tree. 1712 J. James tr. A.-J. Dézallier d'Argenville Theory & Pract. Gardening v. 147 The Picea or Pitch-Tree, is pretty much like the Yew in its Wood and its Leaf, but it shoots up much higher, and does not grow so handsome, nor so thick of Branches, as the Yew does. 1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Abies The Common Firr, or Pitch Tree; sometimes called, The Norway or Spruce Firr. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 898/2 Pitch-tree, Abies excelsa.—, Amboyna, Dammara orientalis. 1889 Littell's Living Age 30 Nov. 566/1 In the Roman days..the box was chiefly used for the purpose of clipping, but the laurel, the cypress, the myrtle, and the pitch-tree were sometimes treated in the same way. 1900 Geogr. Jrnl. 16 96 I shall only mention Taxodium distichium, or the marsh cypress, which now grows in the southern states of North America, a modern species of the pitch tree, and two fir trees. 1951 Dict. Gardening (Royal Hort. Soc.) I. 64/1 A[gathis] alba. Amboyna Pitch Tree. 2003 News-Press (Fort Myers, Florida) (Nexis) 3 May 1 e Slash pine (Pinus elliottii). Also known as ‘pitch trees’, these pines' abundant sap gave rise to their common name. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1538 |
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