| 单词 | savin juniper |
| 释义 | > as lemmassavin juniper 1. A small bushy juniper, Juniperus sabina, native to Europe and Western Asia, which has overlapping scale-like mature leaves and blue-black berry-like cones. In later use also more fully savin juniper. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > conifers > junipers > [noun] gorsec1000 savinOE juniper-treea1382 junipera1400 quickena1400 juniperinec1430 cade1575 jeniver1585 melmot1644 oxycedar1646 red cedar1682 cover-shame1694 Bermuda cedar1700 pencil cedar1785 sharp cedar1840 Rocky Mountain juniper1852 tuckamore1863 tucking-bush1890 OE Ælfric Gloss. (St. John's Oxf.) 312 Nomina arborum... Sabina, sauene. a1200 ( Laud Plant Gloss. 59 Sabina, .i. sauine. ?a1350 in T. Hunt Plant Names Medieval Eng. (1989) 230 [Savina] gallice et anglice savine. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vii. l. 1353 Ther is an herbe which men calleth Saveine. a1400 J. Mirfield Sinonoma Bartholomei (1882) 18 (MED) Ebel, i. savin. 1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 61 Sauin, is one of those kindes which..beareth leafe all seasons of the yeare. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. ii. sig. Dd5v But th'aged Nourse..Had gathered Rew, and Sauine. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 240 Agolethros and Sabine are poyson to Goates. 1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 115 They [sc. sheep] are hurt by aconite, nereon, prickwood, savin,..and scortching fennel. 1712 J. Mortimer Art of Husbandry: Pt. II xiii. ii. 109 Sabin or Savin will make fine Hedges, and may be brought into any sort of Form by clipping. 1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xxix. 460 Savin has opposite, erect, decurrent leaves, with the oppositions boxed or running over each other along the branches. 1838 T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies 464 Oil of sabine. It is obtained from the leaves of the juniperus sabina. Limpid. Has the odour and flavour of sabine. This plant furnishes a great deal of oil. 1861 H. B. Stowe Pearl of Orr's Island i. 8 Only savins and mullens, with their dark pyramids or white spires of velvet leaves, diversified the sandy wayside. 1872 G. A. Dean Culture, Managem., & Improvem. Landed Estates xxv. 224 The savin juniper (Juniperus sabina) when young is a very pretty evergreen. 1920 S. Fallows Pop. & Crit. Bible Encycl. 773/2 The dwarf juniper or savin (Juniperus sabina), which grows in the most sterile and desolate parts of the desert. 1964 A. C. Hilldreth Ornamental Hedges Central Northern Great Plains 18 Savin juniper is a hardy shrub, tolerant of alkaline soils. 1996 R. Mabey Flora Britannica 28/1 J. sabina, which is known as ‘savin’, and which yields oil of savarin, more potent—and toxic—than that from common juniper. 2003 T. Farino et al. Spain Travellers' Nature Guides 240/2 The area north of Velilla del Río Carrón..is studded with Spanish junipers and creeping mats of savin and dwarf junipers. < as lemmas |
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