单词 | red ash |
释义 | red ashn.1 1. Any of several North American ash trees (genus Fraxinus), esp. F. pennsylvanica. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > ash and allies > [noun] ashc700 fraynec1325 wood-browna1400 wild ash1552 white ash1578 manna tree1665 black ash1673 white ash1683 water ash1709 manna ash1715 hoop-ash1763 red ash1773 shrew-ash1776 blue ash1783 swamp ash1794 weeping ash1807 green ash1810 cockscomb ash1850 Oregon ash1857 1773 W. Hanbury Compl. Body Planting & Gardening I. 125/2 The Red Ash. It has its seeds very broad, and is commonly called the Carolina Ash. 1845 A. Wood Class-bk. Bot. ii. 314 The red ash is abundant in Penn. and the southern parts of N. England... Leaves of about 7 leaflets, which become reddish underneath. 1887 Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci. 1885–6 10 104 Red Ash. Tree middle-size or large; wood heavy, hard, strong and brittle. 1908 N. L. Britton N. Amer. Trees 805 It has been supposed that the so-called Red ash and Green ash could be told apart by the velvety twigs of the former and the smooth ones of the latter. 1942 W. M. Harlow Trees Eastern U.S. 269 Red Ash is a swamp or stream-bank tree whose bark is similar to that of white ash. 1994 A. Cleave Field Guide Trees Brit., Europe & N. Amer. 294/1 Red Ash. Fraxinus pennsylvanica... Similar to Common Ash but generally smaller, with a more deeply furrowed reddish-brown bark. 2. Any of several Australian trees, esp. Alphitonia excelsa (family Rhamnaceae) and Orites excelsa (family Proteaceae). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > Australasian trees > [noun] > names applied to various Australasian species pepper tree1773 apple tree1801 white boxc1830 Christmas tree1844 mapau1853 maple1858 leopard-wood1859 red ash1863 sycamore1866 New Zealand orange tree1898 five-finger1926 leopard-tree1927 maple1934 1863 Technologist 3 63 Alphitonia excelsa... (Red Ash, Cooper's Wood, or Leather Jacket, of New South Wales)—It is a fine tree, growing from 50 to 100 feet high. 1887 Colonial & Indian Exhib., London 1886: Rep. Colonial Sections 418 Orites excelsa, R.Br., commonly called Red Ash. Attains moderate dimensions; the wood is dark in colour. 1909 F. M. Bailey Comprehensive Catal. Queensland Plants 100 Alphitonia excelsa..Red Ash. The leaves, with water, rubbed on the hands by school-children to remove ink-stains. 1965 Austral. Encycl. I. 165/2 The red almond (also called red ash, white-leaf, leather-jacket and cooper's wood), is a smooth-barked tree. 2004 Newcastle (New S. Wales) Herald (Nexis) 29 Apr. (News section) 5 The native plants being reintroduced to the area, such as blue gums, red ash and bottle brush..help create habitats for native birds and mammals. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022). red ashn.2ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > grey or greyness > [noun] > reddish grey red ash1824 1824 J. F. Stephens Shaw's Gen. Zool. XII. i. 174 Edged with red..and tipped with a small border of red-ash. 1831 J. Pancoast tr. J. F. Lobstein Treat. Human Sympathetic Nerve i. iv. 60 The first cervical ganglion appeared to me to be the softest of all, most succulent, and of the deepest red-ash colour. 2. U.S. A variety of coal producing ash of a red colour when burned (more fully red ash coal); frequently attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > hydrocarbon minerals > [noun] > coal > other types of coal peacock coal1686 bone1817 paper coal1833 red ash1836 oil coal1856 rattlejack1877 fusain1883 black coal1887 clarain1919 vitrain1919 1836 N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 246 Some of the coal ignites more readily than the rest; and..the red-ash coal is by many, regarded as of superior quality. 1857 T. B. Gunn Physiol. N.Y. Boarding Houses 60 Her coal merchant demurs about bringing a ton of Red Ash or Peach Orchard—until paid. 1874 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 507 To make this..land available for the production of coal, the upper or red-ash veins having been worked out. 1907 St. Nicholas May 669/1 The coal is the red ash, burns very freely and gives plenty of heat. 1961 Times Recorder (Zanesville, Ohio) 3 Dec. d7/5 (advt.) Red Ash Coal. 1990 G. Palladino Another Civil War ii. 28 As long as red ash coal..remained available, this excessive production proved profitable; but by 1850 all but one red-ash region in Schuylkill County had been exhausted. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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