单词 | wayfarer's tree |
释义 | > as lemmaswayfarer's tree wayfarer's tree n. = wayfaring tree n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > viburnums or guelder rose and allies > [noun] > American wayfaring-tree moose bush1784 wayfaring tree1785 sheep-berry1814 witchhopple1826 hobble-bush1842 hopple1853 wayfarer's tree1853 devil's shoestring1860 tangle-leg1860 1853 H. D. Thoreau Jrnl. 30 July (2000) VI. 347 The way farers tree! how good a name! Who bestowed it? a1862 H. D. Thoreau Maine Woods (1864) ii. 88 The mountain-ash was now very handsome, as also the wayfarer's-tree or hobble-bush, with its ripe purple berries mixed with red. 1959 Oshkosh (Wisconsin) Daily Northwestern 20 Oct. 21/5 Cranberry and wayfarers tree are now flourishing where only erosion and rocks prevailed before. 1999 R. Rendell Harm Done ix. 148 The trees are taller,..and among them grow the viburnum and the Wayfarer's Tree. < as lemmas |
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