| 单词 | shittim tree |
| 释义 | > as lemmasshittim tree 2. U.S. More fully shittim wood, shittim tree. Any of several similar North American shrubby trees; esp. a kind of buckthorn, Rhamnus purshiana, of western areas, and Sideroxylon lanuginosum, of the southern states and Mexico. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > thorny berry-bush > [noun] > buckthorn or rhamnus bushes and parts rhamna1425 rhamnus1562 buckthorn1578 hart-thorn1607 purging buckthorn1706 shittim1878 1878 Gardener's Monthly & Horticulturist Jan. 29/2 I have for a dozen years been acquainted with a tree in the Neosho Valley, Kansas, called shittim wood. 1884 C. S. Sargent Rep. Forests N. Amer. 41 Rhamnus Purshiana,..Shittim wood. 1884 C. S. Sargent Rep. Forests N. Amer. 102 Bumelia lanuginosa,..Shittim wood. 1905 R. S. Kellogg Forest Belts Western Kansas & Nebraska (Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric., Bureau Forestry, No. 66) 33 The mesquite, wild china, and shittimwood..reach up into the State [sc. Kansas] from the South. 1987 in C. Kowalchik & W. H. Hylton Rodale's Illustr. Encycl. Herbs 66/1 Also known by the nicknames ‘shittim’ and ‘wahoo’, cascara sagrada is a deciduous shrub or small tree. 1997 L. B. Clegg Empty Schoolhouse 34 There was a white gum we'd chew that came from a shittim tree. It was more like a chewing gum. < as lemmas |
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