| 单词 | syrian oak |
| 释义 | > as lemmasSyrian oak a. In names of plants, animals, and products actually or reputedly coming from Syria, as Syrian bear, Syrian goat, Syrian grape, Syrian mastic, Syrian oak, Syrian pear, Syrian rue, Syrian thistle, Syrian tobacco: see quots. ΚΠ 1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum 13 Marum Syriacum vel Creticum. The Syrian or Candye Mastick. This Candye or Syrian Marjerome, hath sundry upright stalkes. 1649 J. Ogilby tr. Virgil Georgics (1684) ii. 77 The Syrian Pear. 1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 325 Rue, Wild Syrian, Peganum. 1780 Ann. Reg., Chron. 223/2 A cluster of Syrian grapes, the largest..that ever grew in England. 1801 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. II. ii. 374 Syrian Goat... This variety is common in many parts of the East, and is distinguished by the great length of the ears. 1838 Penny Cycl. XI. 357/1 The variety of thick-skinned white grape, called the Syrian. 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Syrian Tobacco, the Nicotiana rustica..which furnishes the Turkish, Latakia, and some of the Asiatic tobaccoes. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 794 The Syrian Thistle, N[otobasis] syriaca,..is distinguished from other thistles by the central florets of the flower-head only being fertile. 1879 E. P. Wright Animal Life 116 The Syrian Bear (U[rsus] Syriacus) is found on Mount Lebanon, and elsewhere in Western Asia. < as lemmas |
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