| 单词 | blue pipe tree |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblue pipe tree 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. < as lemmas |
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