单词 | pine barren |
释义 | pine barrenn. U.S. regional (chiefly southern and eastern). An area of sandy or peaty land with a (usually thin) covering of pine trees. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [noun] > wooded land > types of ripplelOE wildwooda1122 rough1332 firth?a1400 tod stripec1446 osiard1509 bush1523 bush-ground1523 fritha1552 island1638 oak landc1658 pinelandc1658 piney wood1666 broom-land1707 pine barrenc1721 pine savannah1735 savannah1735 thick woods1754 scrub-land1779 olive wood1783 primeval forest1789 open wood1790 strong woods1792 scrub1805 oak flata1816 sertão1816 sprout-land1824 flatwoods1841 bush-land1842 tall timber1845 amber forest1846 caatinga1846 mahogany scrub1846 bush-flat1847 myall country1847 national forest1848 selva1849 monte1851 virgin forest1851 bush-country1855 savannah forest1874 bush-range1879 bushveld1879 protection forest1889 mulga1896 wood-bush1896 shinnery1901 fringing forest1903 monsoon forest1903 rainforest1903 savannah woodland1903 thorn forest1903 tropical rainforest1903 gallery forest1920 cloud forest1922 rain jungle1945 mato1968 the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [adjective] > wooded > types of bushya1382 ramagea1500 boskya1616 brakya1637 brushy1658 brushed1666 scrubbya1687 pine barrenc1721 bush-grown1837 stumpy1838 bush-skirted1858 bushed1868 bush-covered1873 bush-fringed1891 bush-clad1909 primary forest1909 c1721 J. Barnwell & W. Hammerton MS. Map in W. P. Cumming & L. De Vorsey Southeast in Early Maps (1998) Pl. 48C Pine Barren Land. 1731 Pennsylvania Gaz. 29 Apr.–6 May We had a sandy Pine Barren to walk in, which was covered pretty thick with large Pine Trees. 1767 Bartram's Jrnl. 10 in W. Stork Acct. E. Florida (ed. 2) At Johnson's Bluff..for a mile the sandy pine-barren comes close or near the shore. 1816 B. Waterhouse Jrnl. Young Man Mass. (1911) ix. 330 A Moor, a word not used in America, is used in England to denote a low, marshy piece of ground, or a sterile spot like our pine barrens. 1850 C. Lyell 2nd Visit U.S. (ed. 2) II. 12 I had sometimes to put up with rough quarters in the pine-barrens. 1883 Harper's Mag. Feb. 418/2 Huge pine-barrens near the coast hindered the first efforts of the planter. 1916 J. W. Harshberger (title) Vegetation of the New Jersey pine-barrens. 1952 Guardian 3 Mar. 4/6 This long peninsula..was not much more than a pine-barren, pocketed with swamps, till the late nineteenth century. 1999 Jrnl. Torrey Bot. Soc. 126 213/2 Only a very few pine barrens remain in Virginia. Compounds C1. pine-barren flat n. ΚΠ 1799 B. Hawkins Sketch Creek County (1848) 65 Poor, pine barren flat. 1990 J. F. Kraus & E. R. Sluder Genecology of Longleaf Pine 13/1 Descriptions of the southern pine forests emphasize that the ‘pine-barren flats’ (Flatwoods)..were dominated by Savannah-like stands of longleaf pine. pine-barren land n. ΚΠ c1721Pine Barren Land [see main sense]. 1731 M. Catesby Nat. Hist. Carolina I. p. iv/1 The third and worst Kind of Land is the Pine barren Land. 1860 De Bow's Rev. Nov. 601 The poorest pine barren lands of Florida will produce..a luxuriant crop of Sisal hemp. 1999 Newsday (Nexis) 12 May a31 A 1993 state law restricts or regulates 50,000 acres of pine barren land in eastern Suffolk. pine-barren stream n. ΚΠ 1901 C. T. Mohr Plant Life Alabama 125 The pine-barren streams overflow their low banks of shifting sands and gravel. 1954 Amer. Midland Naturalist 52 269 Quillwort... Sluggish pine-barren stream. C2. pine-barren beauty n. the plant pyxie or flowering ‘moss’, Pyxidanthera barbulata (family Diapensiaceae), native to the pine barrens of New Jersey. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > climbing, trailing, or creeping shrubs > [noun] > non-British Paullinia1753 Pothos1754 corchorus1759 water vine1774 cobaea1805 bush-rope1814 combretum1819 kerria1823 pishamin1826 guarana1838 stephanotis1843 lapageria1849 pear-withe1864 waw-waw1864 Bougainvillaea1866 pyxie1882 pine-barren beauty1883 Madagascar jasmine1884 streptosolen1938 1883 W. Robinson Eng. Flower Garden 237/2 Pine Barren Beauty..is an evergreen shrub, yet smaller than many Mosses. 1901 Cycl. Amer. Hort.: N–Q 1475/2 The Pyxie, Flowering Moss or Pine-barren Beauty is a pretty little creeping plant, native only to New Jersey and North Carolina. 1951 Dict. Gardening (Royal Hort. Soc.) IV. 1722/2 P. barbulata. Pyxie, Pine-barren Beauty, Flowering Moss. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > order Scorpiones > unspecified and miscellaneous types pine-barren scorpion1782 1782 J. H. St. J. de Crèvecoeur Lett. from Amer. Farmer x. 236 Scorpions, from the smallest size, up to the pine barren, the largest species known here. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > order Chelonia (turtles and tortoises) > [noun] > suborder Cryptodira > family Emydidae (freshwater turtles) > terrapene carolina (box-turtle) box tortoise1790 box turtle1804 pine-barren terrapin1836 1836 W. M. Darlington in Ann. Lyceum Nat. Hist. N.-Y. 1828–36 3 124 Testudo clausa..Terrapene carolina... Land turtle of the northern states; Pine-barren tarapin of the southern. 1884 F. W. True in G.B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I iii. 158 The Carolina Box Turtle... In the Southern States it is known as the ‘Pine-barren Terrapin’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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