| 单词 | bow-wood |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbow-wood bow-wood n. U.S. the wood of the Osage Orange ( Maclura aurantiaca). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > production and development of arms > [noun] > process in bow- or arrow-making > material for bows yewOE bowstaff1436 bois d'arc1805 bow-wood1805 stave1891 society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > [noun] > wood for making bows yewOE bowstaff1436 staff1545 bow-sting1551 bow-wood1805 society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > other woods of American trees hickory1676 sassafras1728 hickory wood1748 bow-wood1805 quaking asp1822 1805 Deb. Congr. 1806–7 (1852) 1138 One or two slips of the bois d'arc, bow wood, or yellow wood, from the Missouri. 1823 E. James Rocky Mt. Exped. II. 344 The bow-wood, or, as it is sometimes called, the Osage Orange, is found upon the southerly tributaries of the Arkansa. 1847 W. Darlington Amer. Weeds (1860) 297 Maclura aurantiaca,..Osage-orange. Bow-wood. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. at Maclura Its elastic yellow wood is called Bow-wood, from its being used by the Indians for making bows. < as lemmas |
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