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单词 sugar-bush
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sugar-bushn.

Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsugar-bush.
1. A grove or plantation of sugar-maples.
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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. 46/2Sugar 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.
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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.
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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).
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