| 单词 | red pine tree |
| 释义 | > as lemmasred pine tree. 1. Any of various pines or other conifers with reddish bark or wood; esp. (a) a North American pine, Pinus resinosa; also called Norway pine; (b) the rimu of New Zealand, Dacrydium cupressinum; (c) (more fully Japanese red pine) a Japanese pine, Pinus densiflora; (d) an Australian cypress pine, Callitris endlicheri. Also red pine tree. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > conifers > [noun] > cypress pine red pine1760 callitris1814 Oyster Bay pine1832 cypress pine1847 Murray pine1853 mountain pine1910 the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > conifers > [noun] > pines and allies > American red pine Norway pine1711 red pine1760 the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > conifers > [noun] > pines and allies > Japanese red pine red pine1760 aka-matsu1862 1760 T. Jefferys Nat. & Civil Hist. French Dominions N. & S. Amer. I. 4 Here [sc. near St Paul's Bay in Quebec] are also forests of pine-trees, which are much esteemed, especially the red-pine, which is very beautiful and never breaks. 1767 Quebec Gaz. 8 Dec. 3/1 They are hereby forbid to cut down..White Pine, Red Pine, Cypress, or White Oak Trees, on the lands above described. 1809 E. A. Kendall Trav. Northern Parts U.S. III. 145 I have referred the sapling of the lumberers to the yellow, red or Norway pine. 1821 in R. McNab Hist. Rec. N.Z. (1908) I. 560 Q. Whereabouts do the red and white pine trees grow? A... The red pine grows on the side of the hills. 1862 G. Gordon Suppl. Gordon's Pinetum 61 The Japanese call it ‘Aka-matsu’ (red Pine), on account of its red-coloured timber. 1867 J. C. Hepburn Japanese & Eng. Dict. Akamatsz, Red pine. 1889 J. H. Maiden Useful Native Plants Austral. 227 Frenela Endlicheri... ‘Black Pine’, ‘Murray Pine’, ‘Red Pine’, ‘Scrub Pine’, ‘Cypress Pine’. 1889 T. Kirk Forest Flora 29 The rimu, or red pine as it is most frequently termed by the settlers, occupies a larger area of New Zealand forests than any other timber-tree. 1916 E. Pound Lustra 89 The red-pine-tree god looks on him and wonders. 1956 Condor 58 341 When three small red pine trees were added for dense cover, the flock increased at once to more than 30. 1970 R. M. Lockley Man against Nature x. 204 The rimu or red pine Dacrydium [takes] two hundred years to mature to the milling stage. 2001 OG Nov.–Dec. 15 Pinus densiflora ‘Oculus Draconis’ is a variegated Japanese red pine. < as lemmas |
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