| 单词 | wych elm tree |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswych elm tree General use as a modifier, as in wych elm foliage, wych elm tree, etc. Π 1731 S. Switzer Diss. True Cythisus of Ancients 67 The English and Witch Elm Seeds grow every Year in England. 1763 Museum Rusticum (1764) 1 28 To fill up the drains with witch-elm faggots. 1862 E. Bulwer-Lytton Strange Story II. i. 11 In this yard there stood an old wych-elm tree. 1897 Daily News 12 Nov. 8/3 Bunches of wych-elm foliage. 1974 W. Condry Woodlands xiii. 146 The larva of another [moth]..eats wych elm seeds in preference to the leaves. 2016 R. A. Fortey Wood for Trees vii. 166 Wych elm leaves from a young tree..are much smaller than the yellowing examples that are now fluttering down from the canopy of my biggest tree. < as lemmas |
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