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单词 snowberry
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snowberryn.

Brit. /ˈsnəʊb(ə)ri/, /ˈsnəʊˌbɛri/, U.S. /ˈsnoʊˌbɛri/
Etymology: < snow n.1 Compare German schneebeere (Nemnich).
A name given to various plants or shrubs bearing white berries, or to the fruit of these.When denoting the plant or shrub, frequently used attributively with bush (or tree). In the earliest example the identification is doubtful:—
1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 327 Snowberry-bush, Lonicera.
1. A rubiaceous shrub ( Chiococca racemosa), native to the West Indies and Florida, cultivated as a greenhouse or hothouse plant.
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snowberry?1804
snowberry1815
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > cultivated or ornamental trees and shrubs > [noun] > other ornamental trees or shrubs
ambrosieOE
minced pie1739
Christmas bush1750
black-gum1785
Nandina1787
allamanda1789
restio1796
moutan1808
tree peony1811
snowberry1815
aucuba1819
zamang1819
Deutzia1837
ground-jasmine1848
nandin1866
heavenly bamboo1871
spathodea1873
Escallonia1882
nanten1884
o-matsu1916
Japanese pagoda tree1924
dove tree1933
1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 678 Hothouse Plants...Snow-berry.
1839 R. Sweet Hothouse & Greenhouse Man. (ed. 6) 54 Chiococca racemosa or Snow-berry-bush, thrives well in a mixture of loam and peat.
1864 A. H. R. Grisebach Flora Brit. W. Indian Islands 787/2 Snowberry, Chiococca racemosa.
2.
a. A caprifoliaceous shrub ( Symphoricarpus racemosus), native to North America and Mexico, commonly grown in gardens and shrubberies.
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snowberry?1804
snowberry1815
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?1804 in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1987) III. 468 Aug. 2 near Fort Calhoun Symphoricarpos occidentalis Hook. (western snowberry).
1813 T. Jefferson Let. 8 Dec. in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1905) VII. 393 We call it the snow-berry bush, no botanical name being yet given to it.
1821 W. P. C. Barton Flora N. Amer. (new ed.) I. 69 The late Governor Lewis first brought to this city seeds of the snow~berry bush.
1872 C. Rossetti Sing Song 10 A song-singing thrush, Dead at the foot of a snowberry bush.
1894 Mrs. H. Ward Marcella I. i. i. 16 The branches of a snowberry tree.
(b)1821 W. P. C. Barton Flora N. Amer. (new ed.) I. 69 Snow~berry is a very ornamental shrub.1857 A. Henfrey Elem. Course Bot. 313 The berries..of Symphoricarpus, the Snow-berry of our shrubberies, appear to be harmless.1882 Garden 25 Feb. 134/1 The Snowberry..stands almost alone as the representative of the white fruited section.
b. The fruit of this shrub.
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snowberry1837
1837 H. Martineau Society in Amer. II. 245 Smart mulatto girls, with snow-berries in their hair.
1861 H. B. Stowe Pearl of Orr's Island 7 The cheek was white and bloodless as a snowberry.
3. U.S.
a. creeping snowberry, a trailing evergreen plant ( Chiogenes hispidula) common in bogs and woods.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > climbing or creeping plants > non-British climbing or creeping plants > [noun] > North American
woodbine1624
Virginia vine1629
staff-tree1633
Virginia creeper?1703
climbing vine1760
mayflower1778
pepper vine1783
arbutus1785
trailing arbutus1785
pipe vine1803
Ampelopsis1805
ground-laurel1814
waxwork1818
ivory plum1828
fever twig1830
yerba buena1847
mountain pink1850
New England mayflower1855
creeping snowberry1856
Virginian creeper1856
May blossom1871
sand verbena1880
staff-vine1884
1856 A. Gray Man. Bot. Northern U.S. (1860) 250 Chiogenes, Creeping Snow~berry.
a1862 H. D. Thoreau Maine Woods (1864) ii. 95 Creeping snowberry, painted trillium.
1872 M. S. De Vere Americanisms 404 The queen of them all is said to be the lovely, creeping snowberry (Chiogenes hispidula).
b. The wintergreen, checkerberry, or tea-berry.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > medicinal trees or shrubs > [noun] > non-British medicinal trees or shrubs > wintergreen shrubs
wintergreen1778
mountain tea1785
spice-berry1792
partridgeberry1814
tea-berry1818
ivory plum1828
twinberry1836
ivy-berry1840
partridge bush1843
Gaultheria1848
checker-berry1852
partridge-vine1860
snowberry1866
one-berry1873
1866 Chambers's Encycl. VIII. 789/2 The name Snowberry is also given to Gaultheria serpyllifolia, a native of the bogs of North America.
4. Australian. The wax-cluster, Gaultheria hispida.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > berry-bush or -tree > [noun] > Australasian
redberry1785
five-corner1826
wax-cluster1834
mako1848
makomako1848
snowberry1880
sea-berry1884
ground-berry1889
wineberry1889
1880 L. A. Meredith Tasmanian Friends & Foes 11 The ‘Snow-berry’ or ‘Wax cluster’ is also called native Arbutus.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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