red-twiggedadj.
/ˌrɛdˈtwɪɡd/, U.S. /ˌrɛdˈtwɪɡd/ Chiefly in the names of shrubs and trees: having red twigs. See also Compounds.
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1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Tilia Tilia foliis molliter hirsutis, viminibus rubris, fructu tetragono. Raii Syn. The red-twig'd Lime-tree.
?1799–1801 H. C. Andrews Botanist's Repository II. Pl. XCVII Red-twigged Whortle-berry.
1828 J. Mitchell Dendrologia xxii. 67 The Cornus Mascula, or Cornelian Cherry, is but a shrub of the Dog-wood class. There are also, the Great-Flowering.., Red-Twigged, Green-Twigged, &c., all Dog-woods.
1847 W. E. Steele Handbk. Field Bot. 152 It [sc. Salix sphacelata] forms a low, red-twigged bush.
1901 Science 8 Nov. 722/1 The dry bed of the brook,..marked here and there with red-twigged willows.
1984 Daily Herald (Chicago) 14 Sept. iv. 3/1 Branches of the red-twigged dogwood..become characteristically showy with the passing of the winter months.
1996 K. G. Endicott Northern Calif. Gardening ii. 282 Early blooming manzanita, silktassel bushes, and red-twigged shrubs add color.
Compounds
red-twigged lime n. a cultivar or naturally occurring form of large-leaved lime (linden), Tilia platyphyllos, having red twigs.
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1731*Red-twig'd Lime-tree [see main sense].
1831 On Planting (Libr. Useful Knowl.) iii. 29 Lime tree..red twigged, T. Europ. corallina.
1935 Times 15 Mar. 17/6 For narrow roads there is nothing better than lime, especially the ‘red-twigged’ lime, which..is less liable to produce unsightly clusters than the common lime.
2003 A. Paterson Trees for Garden 75/2 (caption) Red-twigged lime (Tilia platyphyllos ‘Rubra’) is closely planted to form an avenue and pruned..to create a hedge-on-sticks.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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