单词 | pipe tree |
释义 | pipe treen. 1. Any of several shrubs called syringa by 16th- and 17th-cent. herbalists. Cf. pipe n.1 14b. a. The common lilac, Syringa vulgaris. Also blue pipe-tree. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > cultivated or ornamental trees and shrubs > [noun] > lilac and allied trees blue pipe1597 lilac1625 lilac-tree1625 pipe tree1629 Persian jasmine1640 Persian lilac1640 Rouen lilac1838 1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole cvii. 407 The blew Pipe tree riseth sometimes to be a great tree. 1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (1721) II. 185 Lilac, or Pipe-Tree,..affords fine scented Flowers in April or May. 1766 T. Amory Life John Buncle II. x. 345 A liquor of a beautiful colour, like that of the lilach or pipe-tree blossom. 1855 G. Emerson Farmer's & Planter's Encycl. Rural Affairs (new ed.) 713/2 The branches are long and straight, and are filled with medulla; hence the old name of the lilac, pipe-tree. 1951 Dict. Gardening (Royal Hort. Soc.) III. 1588/2 Pipe-tree. See Syringa vulgaris. 2001 Canad. Gardening (Nexis) Apr. It was also called the blue pipe tree because its pithy stalks are easily hollowed for making smoking pipes. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > cultivated or ornamental trees and shrubs > [noun] > lilac and allied trees > syringal mock orange pipe1597 pipe tree1629 syringa1664 mock orange1731 seringa1740 Philadelphus1754 Scotch lilac1759 orange-flower tree1877 1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole cvii. 408 The single white Pipe tree or bush, neuer commeth to that height of the former... The flowers..are of a strong, full, or heady sent, not pleasing to a great many. 1728 R. Bradley Dict. Bot. II Syringa flore albo simplici, the single white Pipe-Tree, commonly call'd Syringa by the Gardeners. 1875 Amer. Cycl. X. 468/1 A century ago the lilac and the shrub now cultivated as the mock orange (Philadelphus coronarius) were both known in English gardens as pipe tree. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > cultivated or ornamental trees and shrubs > [noun] > jasmine jasmine1548 Indian mourner1597 jesse1597 makebate1597 sad tree1597 shrub trefoil1597 sorrowful tree1597 double pipe-tree1629 jessamy1631 mogra1662 melancholy tree1760 night jasmine1866 sampaguita1902 pikake1933 1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole cvii. 410 The double white Pipe tree is much used in Egypt to help women in their trauailes of childbirth. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 71/2 The double Pipe-tree, or Jasmine of Arabia, hath the Flowers double. 1728 R. Bradley Dict. Bot. II Syringa Arabica flore duplici.., the double white Pipe Tree, or double white Arabian Jasmine. The Double Pipe-Tree, from a short thick stem, not rising high above the ground, shoots forth divers long and slender branches. 2. pudding pipe-tree: see pudding-pipe tree at pudding n. Compounds 2. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1629 |
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