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单词 bosk
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boskn.

/bɒsk/
Forms: Also Middle English boske, (1800s bosque, rare).
Etymology: The early Middle English bosk(e was a variant of busk, bush n.1; bosk and busk are still used dialectally for bush n.1; but the modern literary word may have been evolved < bosky adj.1
1. A bush. Obsolete exc. dialect.
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the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > characterized by habit > [noun] > shrub or bush
shrub972
bosk1297
bushc1315
treec1350
scrub1398
boce1482
shrag1552
virgult?1553
tod1563
risp1567
bush-tuft1586
frutex1664
scrub-tree1749
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. 547 Hii houede vnder boskes.
c1300 Prov. Hendyng xx Vnder boske shal men weder abide, quoþ Hendyng.
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 322 Boþe boskez & bourez & wel bounden penez.
2. A thicket of bushes and underwood; a small wood.
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the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [noun] > thicket, brake, or brush
shaw755
thicketa1000
thyvela1000
greavec1050
wood-shawc1275
boscagec1400
greenwood shawc1405
thickc1430
brakec1440
shaw of wood1462
queach1486
bush1523
tuft1555
bushment1587
bocage1644
cripple1675
virgult1736
bluffc1752
thick-set1766
sylvagea1774
thicket-maze1813
bosk1815
woodlet1821
rush1822
puckerbrush1867
1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles v. xvi. 196 Meantime, through well-known bosk and dell, I'll lead where we may shelter well.
1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess i. 17 Blowing bosks of wilderness.
1862 E. Bulwer-Lytton Strange Story II. ix. 82 Every bosk and dingle.
1878 H. Phillips Poems from Span. & Ger. 69 In a flowery bosque there flies a bird.
1885 Cent. Mag. Aug. 544/1 It is planted with pleasant little bosks and trim hedges.

Derivatives

boske addre n. Obsolete lit. ‘bush-adder’: a viper, a serpent (Latin coluber).
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the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > [noun] > member of (snake)
addereOE
snakec1000
serpentc1305
boske addre1382
colubrec1480
culeuvre1481
ophidian1821
Joe Blake1927
the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Viperidae (vipers) > genus Vipera > vipera berus (common viper)
adderOE
boske addre1382
blind-wormc1450
hagworm?c1475
colubrec1480
viper1526
long-worm1578
viper-worm1605
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Exod. vii. 9 Tak thin ȝerde, and throw it bifore Pharao, and be it turned into a bosk eddre..The ȝerde..was turnyd into a boske addre.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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