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单词 red-leaved
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red-leavedadj.

Brit. /ˌrɛdˈliːvd/, U.S. /ˈrɛdˌlivd/
Forms: see red adj. and n. and leaved adj.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: red adj., leaved adj.
Etymology: < red adj. + leaved adj. Compare red-leafed adj.In quot. c1425 after Old English rēadlēaf (adjective) in the same sense ( < red adj. + leaf n.1).OE Bounds (Sawyer 360) in S. Miller Charters of New Minster, Winchester (2001) 19 Of wifeles stigele on þæt readleafe treow, of ðam readleafan treowe on ðone ealdan stocc.
1. Of a plant: having reddish leaves; esp. in the names of particular kinds of plant.
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the world > plants > part of plant > leaf > plant defined by leaves > [adjective] > having leaves of particular colour
red-leavedc1425
red-leafed1597
silver-leaved1731
blue-leaved1764
brown-leaved1837
silver-leaf1846
c1425 in E. Edwards Liber Monasterii de Hyda (1866) 92 (MED) Go..fro Wyfeles style to the reed-levyd tree [OE on þæt readleafe treow], fro the reed-leved tree [OE of ðam readleafan treowe] to the old stok.
1726 N. B. Farrier's & Horseman's Dict. 384/2 Sage is of several sorts, but that with broad Leaves, and the red leaved is accounted the best.
1759 P. Collinson Let. 29 May in J. Bartram Corr. (1992) 468 What is the plant thou calls Red leaved Andromeda?
1819 D. B. Warden Acc. U.S. II. 522 Andromeda, red leaved.
1881 Encycl. Brit. XII. 289/2 Sage, Salvia officinalis, a hardy evergreen undershrub..of which there are two varieties, the green-leaved and the red-leaved.
1923 Times 3 Oct. 15/4 The group also contained some very finely coloured forms of red-leaved Japanese maples.
1958 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 45 481/2 These plants were used as stocks in grafts with a red-leaved Perilla variety which had been grown under constant illumination.
1992 Canad. Geographic July 72/2 (caption) Red-leaved bearberry and yellow Schreber's moss, among other flora, frequently brighten the Canol hiker's path.
2. More generally: that has or is characterized by having red leaves (in various senses of leaf n.1). Also figurative.
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1607 T. Heywood Woman Kilde with Kindnesse sig. C4v The red-leau'd table of my hart.
1859 G. W. Thornbury in Househ. Words 9 Apr. 444/2 Burnt in on the red-leaved tablets of my heart.
1868 A. C. Swinburne in D. G. Rossetti & A. C. Swinburne Notes Royal Acad. Exhib. ii. 36 The cadence of colours is just and noble: witness the red-leaved book..on the white cloth, the clear green jug on the table, the dim green bronze of the pitcher.
1882 G. Barlow Song-spray 285 This red-leaved September With me stays.
1915 V. Woolf Voy. Out xvii. 274 As the hands of the clock neared eleven, on this particular Sunday, various people tended to draw together in the hall, clasping little red-leaved books in their hands.
1966 Greece & Rome 13 221 There is a red-leaved wreath on his head.
2006 Washington Post (Nexis) 11 May h7 Having been highly susceptible to this toxic vine my whole life, I can normally spot it from afar, whether in its red-leaved early emergence, [etc.].
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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