| 单词 | blue pipe |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblue pipe blue pipe n. now historical (in full blue pipe tree) the lilac, Syringa vulgaris. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > cultivated or ornamental trees and shrubs > [noun] > lilac and allied trees blue pipe1597 lilac1625 lilac-tree1625 pipe tree1629 Persian jasmine1640 Persian lilac1640 Rouen lilac1838 1597 J. Gerard Herball iii. lvii. 1214 The blue Pipe groweth likewise in manner of a smal hadege tree. 1697 J. Petiver in Philos. Trans. 1695–7 (Royal Soc.) 19 679 The Common Lilac or Blew Pipe Tree. 1728 R. Bradley Dict. Botanicum Syringa,..The blue Pipe-Tree rises sometimes to be as tall as a mean Apple-Tree. 1899 Waterloo (Iowa) Daily Courier 28 Aug. 2/4 The lilac was known as the pipe-bush, the pipe and blue-pipe tree. 1918 L. B. Wilder Colour in my Garden 370 Common Lilac, Laylock, Blue-pipe Tree. 2001 Canad. Gardening (Nexis) Apr. It was also called the blue pipe tree because its pithy stalks are easily hollowed for making smoking pipes. blue pipe blue pipe n. lilac, Syringa vulgaris. Cf. extracted from pipen.1< as lemmas |
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