| 单词 | strong woods |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstrong woods strong woods n. (also strong wood) [with reference to North American peoples after Canadian French bois fort (1749 or earlier); compare Plains Cree sakâwiyiniwak, lit. ‘woodland people’] Canadian a region of thick afforestation; frequently attributive, esp. in the names of North American peoples. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [noun] > wooded land > types of ripplelOE wildwooda1122 rough1332 firth?a1400 tod stripec1446 osiard1509 bush1523 bush-ground1523 fritha1552 island1638 oak landc1658 pinelandc1658 piney wood1666 broom-land1707 pine barrenc1721 pine savannah1735 savannah1735 thick woods1754 scrub-land1779 olive wood1783 primeval forest1789 open wood1790 strong woods1792 scrub1805 oak flata1816 sertão1816 sprout-land1824 flatwoods1841 bush-land1842 tall timber1845 amber forest1846 caatinga1846 mahogany scrub1846 bush-flat1847 myall country1847 national forest1848 selva1849 monte1851 virgin forest1851 bush-country1855 savannah forest1874 bush-range1879 bushveld1879 protection forest1889 mulga1896 wood-bush1896 shinnery1901 fringing forest1903 monsoon forest1903 rainforest1903 savannah woodland1903 thorn forest1903 tropical rainforest1903 gallery forest1920 cloud forest1922 rain jungle1945 mato1968 1792 in Handbk. N. Amer. Indians (1981) VI. ii. 17 Strong Wood Crees. 1800 A. Henry Jrnl. 5 Sept. (1988) I. 43 We had about one quarter of a mile of strong wood to pass through. 1801 A. Mackenzie Gen. Hist. Fur Trade p. xvii in Voy. from Montreal The strong woods and mountainous countries afforded a refuge to those who fled from the contagion of the plains. 1861 Canad. Naturalist Dec. 438 The Strong-wood Reindeer inhabit the thickly wooded parts of the District. 1906 Metrop. Mag. May 164/1 The white man is nothing but a child when he travels the strong-wood country. 1969 E. W. Morse Fur Trade Canoe Routes ii. iv. 45 The North Saskatchewan formed roughly the boundary of the ‘strong woods’ region where the furs were harvested. 1980 P. Lehmberg (title) In the strong woods. 2003 J. C. Jackson Jemmy Jock Bird 96 Rocky Mountain Cree, Strongwoods Cree, and Strongwoods Stoneys also slipped in to trade. < as lemmas |
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