| 单词 | whitten-tree |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswhitten-tree 1. In full whitten-tree. extracted from whittenn.ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > unidentified or variously identified > [noun] whittenOE medicaa1398 hulder1545 lote-tree1678 sadore1681 night-tree1849 OE Antwerp-London Gloss. (2011) 80 Uariculus, hwitingtreow. ?a1425 (?1373) Lelamour Herbal (1938) f. 37 (MED) Knotwort oþer gasar ys like in colour to whityng tre and beryth rede beryis, but þes beþ not so grete, and he growith in woddis a longe comynly by a noþer tre. b. Either of two shrubby trees of the genus Viburnum, the guelder rose, Viburnum opulus, and the wayfaring tree, V. lantana. Now English regional (midlands and southern) or historical. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > viburnums or guelder rose and allies > [noun] bendwithc1440 opier1548 opulus1548 ople1551 dwarf plane tree1578 water elder1578 whitten1578 guelder rose1597 rose elder1597 wayfaring man's tree1597 wayfaring tree1597 opiet1601 cotton tree1633 viorne1637 mealy tree1640 laurustinus1664 stinking tree1681 black haw1688 laurel-thyme1693 laurustine1693 viburnum1731 wayfaring shrub1731 May rose1753 pembina1760 snowball tree1760 mealtree1785 stink-tree1795 cherry-wood1821 snowball1828 sloe1846 withe-rod1846 lithy-tree1866 nannyberry1867 king's crown1879 stag bush1884 snowball bush1931 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball vi. lxxx. 761 Of Marris Elder, Ople, or Dwarffe Plane tree... I take this to be a shrub that is called in Englishe, Whittentree, whereof are two kindes. 1597 J. Gerard Herball iii. 1237 The water Elder is called..in English Marish Elder, and Whitten tree, Ople tree, and Dwarffe Plane tree. a1697 J. Aubrey (Royal Soc. MS) lf. 137 in J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names (1886) About Cranbourn chace growes..a tree with a white leafe..no bigger than a cherry tree; they call it Whiting or Whitewood. 1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words II Whitten, the wayfaring tree. Kent. 2010 D. Hooke Trees Anglo-Saxon Eng. 267 In the Midlands and south-west the whitten-tree is another name for the wayfaring tree. c. The rowan or mountain ash, Sorbus aucuparia. Cf. whitty n. Now English regional (midlands and southern) or historical. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > berry-bush or -tree > [noun] > mountain ash quick treeeOE wycheOE quickena1400 foldc1420 rowan-tree1483 quickbeam?1537 wild ash1552 field ash1578 mountain ash1597 quicken berry1597 whitten1633 witchen1664 quickenberry tree1671 wicky1681 rowan1751 narrow-leaved service tree1793 sorb1796 bastard mountain ash1800 roundwood1846 fowler's service tree1859 1633 T. Johnson Gerard's Herball (new ed.) (Table Eng. Names) Whitten tree, i. Water Elder, or wilde Ash. 1669 Philos. Trans. 1668 (Royal Soc.) 3 857 The Whitting or Quicking-tree, (Lat. Fraxinus Sylvestris, and by some Fraxinus Cambro-Britanica). 1856 J. Noake Notes & Queries for Worcs. 185 The witch elm..was good; the mountain ash or witten tree was better; and the sorb tree..was the strongest of all. 1868 Archaeologia 42 125 The Rowan or Quick-beam,..popularly termed the Mountain Ash.., and, in some counties, the Whiten-tree and the Witty. 1888 in Trans. Worcs. Naturalists' Club (1950) 10 147 The Pyrus domesticus of botanists, termed by rustics the Whitty Pear Tree: its foliage resembles that of the mountain ash, which they simply call the Whitty or Whitten tree. 2010 D. Hooke Trees Anglo-Saxon Eng. xi. 266 There is, however, another Sorbus species, S. aria, the whitebeam, which was known in Hampshire as the whitten or whittenbeam. < as lemmas |
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