单词 | sweetwood |
释义 | sweetwoodn. A name for various trees and shrubs, chiefly lauraceous, of the West Indies and tropical America, some of which furnish valuable timber; also the timber itself. black sweetwood n. Strychnodaphne (Ocotea) floribunda. loblolly sweetwood n. Oreodaphne (Ocotea) Leucoxylon; also Sciadophyllum Jacquini (N.O. Araliaceæ). mountain sweetwood n. Acrodiclidium jamaicense. pepper sweetwood n. (or yellow sweetwood) Nectandra sanguinea. Rio Grande sweetwood n. Oreodaphne Leucoxylon. shrubby sweetwood n. the genus Amyris (N.O. Rutaceæ or Amyridaceæ). timber sweetwood n. Oreodaphne (Nectandra) exaltata, N. leucantha, and Acrodiclidium jamaicense. white sweetwood n. Nectandra leucantha and N. sanguinea. The name is also given to Croton eleuteria of the West Indies and Bahamas, which yields cascarilla bark. (See Treasury Bot. and Miller Plant-n.)lowland sweetwood: see first element. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > non-British timber trees > [noun] > of South America or West Indies sweetwood1607 mastic1657 acajou1666 bastard locust tree1670 bastard locust tree1670 alligator wood1696 muskwood1696 lancewood1697 rodwood1716 cog-wood1725 soapwood1733 down tree?1740 pigeon plum1743 break-axe tree1756 horse-wood1756 loblolly whitewood1756 Spanish elm1756 trumpet-tree1756 ahuehuete1778 ocote1787 locust tree1795 Madeira wood1796 peroba1813 roble1814 louro1816 cecropia1824 purple heart1825 wallaba1825 trumpet-wood1836 gumbo-limbo1837 poui1838 quebracho1839 snake-wood1843 yacca1843 horseflesh wood1851 necklace tree1858 Honduras rosewood1860 turanira1862 softwood1864 wattle-wood1864 balsa tree1866 primavera1871 rauli1874 lemon-wood1879 wheel-tree1882 Spanish stopper1883 gurgeon-stopper1884 pinkwood-tree1884 stopper1884 sloth-tree1885 imbaubaa1893 Spanish cedar1907 amarant1909 Parana pine1916 imbuya1919 mastic-bully1920 banak1921 timbo1924 becuiba1934 society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > other woods of West Indies and Central America guaiacum1533 guaiac1558 lignum vitae1594 sweetwood1607 green ebony1665 princewoodc1665 alligator wood1696 pimento wood1712 greenheart1719 mahoea1726 galimeta-wood1756 determa1769 bullet-wood1843 cocobolo1849 lancewood1858 silver-balli1858 yari-yari1858 Honduras rosewood1860 sabicu1866 amarant1909 1607 in 3rd Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1872) 53/2 The soil..covered with good oak, ash, walnut tree, poplar, pine, sweet woods. 1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia 197 Many huge bone-fires of sweet-wood. ?1711 J. Petiver Gazophylacii VII.–VIII. Table 71 Mexican sweet Wood... This is a pale coloured Wood with brownish Clouds, it has a very fragrant Smell especially if chewed. 1721 Act 8 Geo. I c. 12 §2. 1811–12 W. J. Titford Sketches Hortus Botanicus Americanus Expl. Plate vii, p. ii White Sweet~ wood (laurus leucoxylon). 1858 R. Hogg Veg. Kingdom 623 The wood of O[reodaphne] exaltata is yellow, very hard and durable, and is called Sweetwood, in Jamaica. 1866 Chambers's Encycl. VIII. 491/1 The compound decoction, formerly known as the Decoction of Sweet Woods. Compounds C1. attributive, as sweetwood tree. Π 1750 G. Hughes Nat. Hist. Barbados 157 The Sweet Wood-tree. C2. sweetwood bark n. cascarilla bark. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > medicinal trees or shrubs > [noun] > medicinal barks > other medicinal barks oak bark1579 cascarilla1686 false Winter's bark1722 malambo bark1816 matias bark1840 sweetwood bark1846 magnolia1857 cascara sagrada1879 cuprea bark1884 sacred bark1891 1846 J. Lindley Veg. Kingdom 279 The plant is scarcely known here [i.e. in the Bahamas] by the name of Cascarilla, but is commonly called Sweet Wood Bark. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1607 |
随便看 |
|
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。