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单词 thorn-tree
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thorn-treen.

Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈthorn-tree.
A tree having or bearing thorns; in Great Britain, usually a hawthorn tree; in southern Africa, usually an acacia.
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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.
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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).
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