单词 | white pine |
释义 | white pinen.adj. A. n. 1. Chiefly North American. Any of a group of North American pines producing softwood with a pale colour and uniform texture, spec. Pinus strobus, native to eastern and central parts of the continent (also called eastern white pine). Also: the wood of any of these trees.Other members of this group of pines include P. monticola, P. lambertiana, P. flexilis, and P. strobiformis. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > conifers > [noun] > pines and allies > American white pine white pine1682 masting-pine1755 Weymouth Pine1755 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > non-British timber trees > [noun] > North American arrowwood1578 white pine1682 wicopy1704 American olive1772 pumpkin pine1809 mountain mahogany1810 redwood1819 western yellow pine1857 western hemlock1867 western red cedar1874 Sitka cedar1875 ponderosa1878 walking stick1910 1682 in Early Rec. Town of Providence (Rhode Island) (1899) XIV. 113 From ye said heape of stones to range north..to a great white pine. 1767 Quebec Gaz. 8 Dec. 3/1 They are hereby forbid to cut down..White Pine..on the lands above described. 1785 T. Martyn in tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xxviii. 445 Weymouth Pine... In North America it is called White Pine, and is excellent for masts. 1838 J. C. Loudon Arboretum I. i. iv. 183 When the ground became in the least degree elevated, white pines abounded. 1893 Scribner's Mag. June 697/1 The white-pine supply of this country stands in the States of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. 1893 B. Torrey Footpath-Way 232 I cannot recollect the day when I did not regard the Weymouth pine (the white pine I was taught to call it..) with something like reverence. 1948 Reader's Digest Jan. 68/2 Of all American woods none has been more significant than white pine. 1961 H. MacLennan Rivers of Canada 97 When Wright surveyed the Ottawa forests he found an abundance of white pine standing two hundred feet tall. 2012 Titusville (Pa.) Herald 26 Nov. 4/2 There's no mistaking an eastern hemlock for a white pine. 2. Chiefly Australian and New Zealand. a. More fully New Zealand white pine. The kahikatea, Dacrycarpus dacrydioides; the pale wood of this tree. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > conifers > [noun] > other conifers juniper1748 bald cypress1785 Norfolk Island pine1803 Norfolk pine1804 taxodium1821 kahikatea1823 Moreton Bay pine1826 mai1831 matai1831 white pine1833 podocarp1846 black rue1864 plum fir1866 cephalotaxus1883 hoop-pine1884 mountain hemlock1884 tide-land spruce1891 kahika1921 Leyland's cypress1933 Metasequoia1941 1833 Sydney Herald 6 May (advt.) The entire cargo of the brig ‘Helen,’ consisting of 381 square logs of New Zealand White Pine. 1834 Church Missionary Record Nov. 255/2 The land appears to be exceedingly rich, and, on one side, is clothed with a dense forest of the white pine. 1855 R. Taylor Te Ika a Maui 439 (Podocarpus excelsus.) This tree is generally called the white pine, from the color of its wood. 1929 Queenslander 19 Dec. 63/4 New Zealand White Pine is generally whiter in colour and about 7lb. per cubic foot lighter than Queensland Hoop. 1975 D. Bagley Snow Tiger ii. 33 Gone were the stands of tall white pine and cedar, of kahikatea and kohekohe. 2009 J. Fitter New Zealand Wildlife Bradt. Trav. Guides 124/2 The kahikatea or white pine..is found on the edges of swamps. b. Any of various evergreen coniferous trees of Australia, typically having pale wood or foliage; the wood of any of these trees. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > Australasian trees > [noun] > evergreens pine1788 angophora1804 ohia1815 pate1832 pohutukawa1832 Moreton Bay chestnut1836 Olearia1839 horopito1847 ramarama1848 matipo1853 white pine1856 musk tree1866 manoao1867 patete1867 puka1867 rangiora1867 tawhiri1872 tarata1876 lemon-wood1879 Otago ivy-tree1883 horizontal1888 lehua1888 inanga1889 mountain pine1889 puka1889 Queensland kauri1889 sheep-bush1889 wilga1889 mutton-bird tree1891 tree-daisy1926 1856 Proc. Bot. Soc. Edinb. 69/2 Podocarpus spinulosus... White Pine of Brisbane Water. 1892 Sydney Morning Herald 9 Apr. 4/6 We have but one Araucaria.., but it is the most important of all our pines... It also goes by the name of white pine. 1917 J. H. Maiden Forestry Handbk. II. 152 In northern New South Wales the timber [sc. of Araucaria Cunninghammii] often goes under the name of ‘White Pine’. 1953 Wellington (New S. Wales) Times 24 Aug. 4/4 As a result of the control of rabbits and the exclusion of stock, regeneration of white pine (Callitris glauca)..has been remarkable. B. adj. Made of wood from a white pine. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [adjective] > other specific tree aldernOE ashena1400 terebinthenc1440 elmen1466 yewen1501 Brazil1577 walnut-tree1687 arbuteana1706 white pine1708 mahogany1730 teak-built1835 1708 Boston Selectmen 30 Aug. White-pine boards..and other lumber. 1819 A. L. Hillhouse tr. F. A. Michaux N. Amer. Sylva III. 165 The principal superiority of the White Pine masts over those brought from Riga is their lightness. 1844 Knickerbocker Mag. 23 444 The clean white-pine buckets..into which the sap drips..are made expressly for this use. 1913 Amer. Contractor 12 July 95/3 During colonial times the cargoes of England and America were carried under white pine decks. 1934 Townsville (Queensland) Daily Bull. 6 Jan. 9/6 They sawed a white pine log through in 11 4-5 seconds. 2001 This Old House Apr. 28/1 You could mill tongues and grooves on the edges and have some great white pine paneling. Compounds C1. General attributive. ΚΠ 1769 in Boston Evening Transcript (1911) 28 Sept. iii. 12 I have viewed the White pine Timber standing and growing on said Spaulding's land. 1789 J. Morse Amer. Geogr. 197 The tract..is white pine land. 1815–16 Niles' Weekly Reg. 9 (Suppl.) 178/1 I observed hundreds—and I believe thousands of roads of strong substantial and durable fence, made of white pine stumps. 1885 G. W. Cable Dr. Sevier xviii. 129 Shiny, sugary, and artificially crimson roasted apples, with neatly whittled white-pine stems to poise them on. 1909 P. Spaulding Present Status of White-pine Blights (U.S.D.A. Bur. Plant Industry Circular No. 35) 11 The white-pine blight is a complex of several different diseases. 1966 Waunakee (Wisconsin) Tribune 1 Dec. 5/5 The federal move was in line with recent studies which showed protection for the white pine industry could best be provided by the states. 2013 Traverse City (Mich.) Record-Eagle 11 Jan. a4/1 It [sc. a sawmill] was not a big success—hard to believe considering the white pine forest that dominated the region. C2. white pine blister rust n. (also white pine blister) a rust disease causing canker formation and death of Pinus strobus and other white pines (sense A. 1), caused by the heteroecious basidiomycete fungus Cronartium ribicola, the intermediate hosts of which are currants and gooseberries (genus Ribes).The fungus was introduced into North America from Europe in the early 20th cent., causing major losses in commercial plantations of white pine. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > type of disease > fungal > associated with trees heart rot1808 white rot1828 sap-rot1838 red rot1847 conk1851 soft rot1886 pine blister1889 silver-leaf1890 leaf shedding1891 pine rust1893 leaf cast1894 partridge-wood1894 larch blister1895 needle-cast1895 sooty mould1901 white pine blister rust1909 larch needle cast1921 coral-spot1923 ink disease1923 pocket rot1926 wood rot1926 Dutch elm disease1927 oak wilt1942 ash dieback1957 1909 Forestry Q. 7 231 Another disease of a very serious nature has been imported into this country... It's most common name is the White Pine Blister Rust. 1974 M. Hoyt Thirty Miles for Ice Cream vi. 66 We had currant bushes..before anybody knew they were an intermediate host to..white-pine blister. 2008 Independent 12 Jan. (Mag.) 41/1 They helped spread the disease White Pine Blister Rust, threatening the nation's lumber market. white pine weevil n. a small reddish-brown weevil of North America, Pissodes strobi, the larvae of which bore tunnels in and kill young shoots of various kinds of pine and spruce. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Curculionoidea or Rhyncophora > family Curculionidae or genus Curculio > pissodes or hylobius abietus (pine-weevil) pine weevil1817 white pine weevil1817 1817 W. D. Peck in Mass. Agric. Jrnl. 4 209 Fig. 2 and 3 represent the Rynchaenus Strobi, or White Pine Weevil of its natural size and magnified. 1905 S. N. Spring Natural Replacement White Pine New Eng. (Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric., Bureau Forestry, No. 63) 14 The white pine weevil..is a reddish-brown snout beetle. 1976 Columbus (Montana) News 27 May (Joliet Suppl.) 4/5 Whitepine weevil..can kill twigs and branches of some evergreens. 2004 Northern Woodlands Summer 4/3 Dead terminal shoots of white pines killed by the white pine weevil are now evident. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.adj.1682 |
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