单词 | pine cone |
释义 | pine conen. The woody fruit or strobilus of a coniferous tree, esp. a pine. Cf. cone n.1 3. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > conifers > [noun] > fir- or pine-cone pine nuteOE nutOE pineapplea1398 cone1562 cone-nut1562 pineapple nut1568 clog1577 chat1697 fir-apple1712 pine cone1723 strobilus1753 strobile1777 fir-bob1854 fir-ball1878 dennebol1909 1723 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth (ed. 3) 81 Nuts, Pine-Cones, and the like. 1834 Penny Cycl. II. 54/1 The sweet-sop..bears a greenish fruit covered with scales, and having the appearance of a young pine cone. 1870 R. W. Emerson Farming in Wks. (1906) III. 60 Nature drops a pine-cone in Mariposa, and it lives fifteen centuries. 1927 C. M. Russell Trails plowed Under 10 The floor's strewn with pine cones..showin' it's been the home of mountain-rats an' squirrels. 1999 News of World 26 Sept. 62/2 The Gardenvac allows larger objects such as pine cones to pass straight to the collection bag. Compounds pine-cone fish n. any of several small, oval marine fishes constituting the Indo-Pacific family Monocentridae, which are armoured with large heavy scales and have light organs on the lower jaw. ΚΠ 1931 E. G. Boulenger Fishes xv. 118 The most extraordinary members of the Order are the Pine-Cone Fishes (Monocentridæ). Their small, three- or four-inch-long bodies are covered with a cuirass composed of rough plates like those of a pine-cone. 1997 G. S. Helfman et al. Diversity of Fishes xv. 249/2 Included among the beryciforms are such relatively shallow-water luminescent forms as pinecone fishes and flashlight fishes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1723 |
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