单词 | suber |
释义 | subern.ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > oak and allies > [noun] > cork-oak cork-treec1440 suber1579 cork1601 alcornoque1821 cork oak1873 Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 93 Corktre, suberies.] 1579 W. Bullein Bulwarke Def. f. 62v Suber the Corke Tree wyth hys Fruict, hath the foresayd vertue to stop the Flixe, or Bloud. 1597 J. Gerard Herball iii. cxli. 1348 The trunke or body with the greater armes or boughes of the tree, are couered with a double or two folde barke, like that of Suber, the Corke tree. ?1734 Pract. Husbandman & Planter II. ii. 103 A 7th Species of Glandiferous Trees, and which bears an Acorn like the Oak, is the Suber, or Cork-Tree. 1794 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. X. 252 The garden contains many of the rarest exotics; and, amongst others, the suber, or cork tree which was long supposed to be too delicate for our northern climate. 2. Botany and Chemistry. Originally: cork; the outer bark or periderm of the cork oak. In later use: a waxy material forming the outer layer of the periderm in parts of certain other plants, composed of tightly packed suberized cells. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > oak and allies > [noun] > cork-oak > bark of suber1727 society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > cork > [noun] cork-barkc1440 cork1570 corkwood1770 suber1873 velvet-cork1883 the world > plants > part of plant > cell or aggregate tissue > [noun] > tissue > specific types of tissue > vegetable principle found in cork tissue suber1889 the world > plants > part of plant > cell or aggregate tissue > [noun] > tissue > cambium or periderm cambium1672 peridermis1839 periderm1849 mother1862 phelloderm1875 phellogen1875 suber1913 1727 P. Shaw tr. Dispensatory Royal Coll. Physicians Edinb. 32 Suber, The Cork-Tree. Its Bark. 1825 W. Weldon Pop. Explan. Chem. 523 Suber is the name given to the peculiar substance which constitutes the outer bark of the quercus suber. 1873 M. Kirby & E. Kirby Chapters on Trees ix. 57 The suber is of the utmost importance to man... After it is taken from the tree, and has undergone preparation, it appears in our shops and houses under the name of cork. 1889 Pharmaceut. Jrnl. & Trans. 20 July 41/1 Under the microscope a transverse section of the bark exhibits an outer layer of brown suber, within which are two or three rows of empty transparent cells. 1913 Jrnl. Amer. Soc. Agronomy 5 19 The development of the suber varies in the different varieties of potatoes sometimes to a very marked extent. 2001 New Phytologist 151 388/1 Finally, the presence of suber revealed the activity of a phellogen (i.e. cork cambium). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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