单词 | thorn-tree |
释义 | thorn-treen. A tree having or bearing thorns; in Great Britain, usually a hawthorn tree; in southern Africa, usually an acacia. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > [noun] > thorn-tree thorna700 brierc1000 thorn-bushc1330 nettle bush?c1475 thorn-tree1483 thornlet1865 the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > thorny berry-bush > [noun] > hawthorn and allies hawthorna700 hawthorn-treec1290 whitethorna1300 haw-treec1325 albespyne?a1425 thorn-tree1483 mespilus1548 may-branch1560 quickthorn1571 hedge-bush1576 busket1579 May-bush1579 Neapolitan medlar1597 azarole1658 pyracanth1664 white bush1676 Glastonbury thorna1697 quick1727 evergreen thorn1731 blackthorn1737 whitethorn1788 oriental medlar1797 haw1821 May-haw1840 Maythorn1844 May1848 pear thorn1848 pink thorn1852 aronia thorn1882 scarlet thorn1882 black haw1897 1483 Cath. Angl. 384/1 A Thorne tree, mespula, rampnus. 1785 G. Forster tr. A. Sparrman Voy. Cape Good Hope I. ix. 324 Being once upon a plain under the shelter of a few scambling thorn-trees, (mimosa Nilotica) he thought he should steal upon an elephant that was near the spot. 1798 A. Barnard Jrnl. 13 May in A. W. C. Lindsay Lives of Lindsays (1849) III. 440 I plucked from the great thorn-trees some of their prickles. 1850 R. Gordon-Cumming Five Years Hunter's Life S. Afr. I. xi. 245 A clump of tangled thorn-trees. 1856 A. P. Stanley Sinai & Palestine x. 363 The ‘Nabk’, or thorn-tree,..here breaks out along the hill-sides in thick jungles. 1895 Atlantic Monthly July 61 The thorn-tree before me was perhaps fifteen feet high. 1970 Standard Encycl. Southern Afr. I. 10/2 In South Africa the indigenous members of the genus [Acacia] as a whole are generally referred to as ‘thorn-trees’ or ‘acacias’. Compounds thorn-tree fly n. a March trout-fly, a thorn-fly or hawthorn-fly n. at hawthorn n. Compounds 3. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > means of attracting fish > [noun] > artificial fly > types of moor flylOE drake-flya1450 dub-flya1450 dun cut1496 dun fly1496 louper1496 red fly1616 moorish fly1635 palmer1653 palmer fly1653 red hackle1653 red palmer1653 shell-fly1653 orange fly1662 blackfly1669 dun1676 dun hackle1676 hackle1676 mayfly1676 peacock fly1676 thorn-tree fly1676 turkey-fly1676 violet-fly1676 whirling dun1676 badger fly1681 greenfly1686 moorish brown1689 prime dun1696 sandfly1700 grey midge1724 whirling blue1747 dun drake?1758 death drake1766 hackle fly1786 badger1787 blue1787 brown-fly1787 camel-brown1787 spinner1787 midge1799 night-fly1799 thorn-fly1799 turkey1799 withy-fly1799 grayling fly1811 sun fly1820 cock-a-bondy1835 brown moth1837 bunting-lark fly1837 governor1837 water-hen hackle1837 Waterloo fly1837 coachman1839 soldier palmer1839 blue jay1843 red tag1850 canary1855 white-tip1856 spider1857 bumble1859 doctor1860 ibis1863 Jock Scott1866 eagle1867 highlander1867 jay1867 John Scott1867 judge1867 parson1867 priest1867 snow-fly1867 Jack Scott1874 Alexandra1875 silver doctor1875 Alexandra fly1882 grackle1894 grizzly queen1894 heckle-fly1897 Zulu1898 thunder and lightning1910 streamer1919 Devon1924 peacock1950 1676 C. Cotton Compleat Angler (1881) ii. vii. 285 There is also for this month [March], a fly, called the Thorn-tree fly; the dubbing is..black, mixed with eight or ten hairs of Isabella-coloured mohair. 1787 T. Best Conc. Treat. Angling 99 March. The Thorn or Hawthorn Tree fly. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2020). < |
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。