单词 | sugar-bush |
释义 | sugar-bushn. 1. A grove or plantation of sugar-maples. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > maples > [noun] > assemblage of sugar-bush1823 sugar-orchard1848 sap orchard1861 sap-busha1882 the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > cultivation of specific crops > [noun] > sugar-maple plantation sugar-bush1823 1823 J. F. Cooper Pioneers II. i. 9 We will stop and see the ‘sugar bush’ of Billy Kirby. 1836 C. P. Traill Backwoods of Canada 315 The sap having been boiled down in the sugar-bush. 1842 C. M. Kirkland Forest Life II. xlvi. 284 Happy he whose far reaching ‘eighties’ enclose a sugar-bush! 1896 15th Rep. Vermont State Board Agric. 1895–6 38 Does the location of a sugar bush determine the quality of the sugar? 1950 N.Y. Times Mag. 23 Apr. 46/2 ‘Sugar bush’ is rarely heard in New Jersey, but in Pennsylvania it is the normal term. 1973 L. Russell Everyday Life Colonial Canada xi. 144 The settler who would exploit his grove of maple trees or ‘sugar-bush’ cleared narrow roads through the woods. 2. [Cape Dutch suikerbos.] The South African shrub Protea mellifera; also, any of several other species of Protea rich in nectar. Cf. Protea n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > African trees or shrubs > [noun] > protea or sugar-bush sugar-tree1705 wagenboom1790 suikerbos1818 sugar-bush1822 wagon-tree1822 Protea1824 blushing bride1917 1822 W. J. Burchell Trav. Interior S. Afr. I. ii. 18 The delicate Humming-birds (Trochili) of South America are, in Southern Africa, represented by the Nectariniæ, here called by the Dutch colonists Suiker-vogels (sugar-birds), from having been observed..to feed principally on the honey of the flowers of the Suiker-bosch (sugar-bush). a1823 J. Ewart Jrnl. Stay Cape Good Hope (1970) ii. 14 The Protea of Linn[æus] called by the colonists the sugar bush, from the quantity of sweet juices the large and beautiful flowers contain. 1880 Handbk. S. Afr. (S. W. Silver & Co.) (ed. 3) 127 It covers extensive grounds..associating with the Kreupel~boom, the Sugar-bush and other shrubs. 1931 V. Sampson Kom Binne 28 The wild arums, the sugar-bush goblets of pink or cream. 1970 M. Muller Cloud across Moon 239 The masses of white and pink sugar bushes were covered with nearly opened sticky, stiff flowers. 3. U.S. An evergreen shrub, Rhus ovata, native to south-western North America and bearing yellow flowers followed by dark red berries. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > sumacs > [noun] buck's-horna1450 rhus?1541 sumac1548 Venice sumac1597 poisonwood1671 poison tree1676 swamp sumac1722 urushi1727 stag-horn1753 Venetian sumac1755 poison ash1757 ipoh1779 poison sumac1785 ailanthus tree1789 Japan varnish1789 vinegar-plant1797 mountain sumac1813 poison dogwood1814 upas1814 karee1815 fustet1821 taaibos1821 poison elder1822 varnish sumac1822 Japan lacquer1835 tree of heaven1845 anacard1847 smoke plant1856 tanners' sumac1858 swamp dogwood1859 smoke-tree1860 wax-tree1866 wig-sumac1867 wig-tree1867 burnwood1874 vinegar-tree1874 mountain manchineel1884 valley of death tree1888 sugar-bush1900 smoke bush1902 1900 West Amer. Sci. X. 61 The Sugar-bush is a handsome evergreen shrub. 1931 G. H. Vansell Nectar & Pollen Plants Calif. 49 Sugar bush..of coastal southern California blossoms in winter. 1949 Nature Mag. Nov. 424/1 There is the gray of some manzanitas, the silver of white sage, the dark green of sugar bush. 1982 M. Millar Mermaid vi. 57 Drought-resistant native plants like ceanothus and sugar-bush. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1822 |
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