单词 | sorrel-tree |
释义 | sorrel-treen. The sourwood or elk-tree of North America, Oxydendrum arboreum ( Andromeda arborea). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > North American trees or shrubs > [noun] > sorrel-tree sorrel-tree1687 sour tree1717 sour wood1856 titi1860 1687 J. Clayton Let. in Philos. Trans. 1739–40 (Royal Soc.) (1742) 41 152 The Sorrel-tree bears a Leaf something like a Laurel. 1717 Petiveriana iii. 247 Sorrel or Sowre-tree. Because its Leaves have that Taste; some are a Foot diameter. 1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 327 Sorrel-tree, Andromeda. 1821 W. P. C. Barton Flora N. Amer. (new ed.) I. 107 The sorrel tree itself, however, degenerates into a shrub. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 472/1 The leaves of Eubotrys arborea have an acid flavour, whence the name of Sorrel-tree. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1687 |
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