单词 | yellowwood |
释义 | yellowwoodn. 1. Any of various trees and shrubs having yellowish wood (frequently with distinguishing word). Also: the wood itself.In early use spec. the tropical American tree fustic, Maclura tinctoria, and the yellow dyewood obtained from it. Among other trees for which the name is used are Cladrastis kentukea of North America (more fully American yellowwood) and other members of the genus Cladrastis (family Leguminosae), and several Australian trees, including Rhodosphaera rhodanthema (family Anacardiaceae) (more fully deep yellowwood).prickle yellowwood, prickly yellowwood: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > [noun] > names applied to various types of trees or shrubs whitewood1562 yellowwood1583 lightwood1597 redwood1693 hoop-wood1756 stave-wood1778 whistle-wood1825 whip-cropa1850 pepperwood1858 white tree1863 1583 L. Mascall tr. Profitable Bk. Spottes & Staines f. 37 To dye silke red. Take of good wood ashes, & make a good lye therof, & put therin of willow or facet woad, & barbary wood or yelow wood. a1622 R. Norwood Descr. Sommer Ilands in V. A. Ives Rich Papers (1984) 378 The Country, when we first began the Plantation, was all ouer-growne with Woods and Plants of seuerall kinds: and to such gaue names: such as were knowne retaining their old names: as Cedars, Palmetoes, Black-wood, White-wood, Yellow-wood, [etc.]. 1666 J. Davies tr. C. de Rochefort Hist. Caribby-Islands 43 There is one [Tree] very much esteem'd for its usefulness in Dying: It grows up to a great height, and the wood is perfectly yellow... It is called the Yellow-wood [Fr. Bois Iaune] from its colour. 1752 in W. Cramond Rec. Elgin (1903) I. 465 Ilk cwt. brown Brisiell wood, sweet wood, yellow wood or fustic 8d. 1793 J. Hunter Hist. Jrnl. Trans. Port Jackson xv. 390 The live-oak, yellow-wood, black-wood, and beech, are all of a close grain. 1814 H. M. Brackenridge Views Louisiana i. v. 59 One very beautiful [forest tree], bois jaune, or yellow wood: by some called the mock orange. 1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 122 Oxleya xanthoxyla, a large tree, is the Yellow-wood of New South Wales. 1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 199 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV Yellow wood (Cladrastis tinctoria) is a western tree. 1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) II. 527 Fustic, or Yellow Wood. The old fustic of the English dyer. It is the wood of the Morus tinctoria. 1880 J. Bonwick Resources Queensland 82 Deep Yellow Wood, a Rhus with a scaly bark and red flower, is eagerly sought after by sawyers for furniture use. 1936 R. H. Anderson Trees New S. Wales 127 Socket Wood..is also known as Light Yellow-wood, Satin Wood, and occasionally as Sassafras. 1969 T. H. Everett Living Trees of World 195/1 Quite different is the flowering habit of the Chinese yellow-wood (C[ladrastis] sinensis). 2006 Chesapeake Life June 112/2 To buffer the front of the house from the street, she added willow oak, paperbark maple, and American yellowwood to the existing population of shade and flowering trees. 2. Originally South African. The fine-grained yellow wood of any of several African trees of the genus Podocarpus, used in building and joinery (frequently attributive). Also: any of these trees (frequently with distinguishing word). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > non-British timber trees > [noun] > African shittima1382 citrus1555 cam-wood1699 jacaranda1753 kokerboom1774 quiver tree1789 geelhout1790 rooihout1790 yellowwood1790 mat-wood1792 assegai1793 assegai tree1793 hardpear1801 rooi els1801 argan1809 beaver-wood1810 mat tree1812 saffraan1819 salie1819 sneezewood1834 African teak1842 hyawaballi1851 sage-wood1854 mvule1858 til1858 yari-yari1858 cannibal stinkwood1859 kiaat1862 knobwood1862 milkwood1862 tryssil1862 sulphur-tree1863 khaya1864 cailcedra1866 flat-crown1868 umzimbeet1870 kuka1882 odum1887 iroko1890 opepe1891 Natal mahogany1904 muhimbi1906 obeche1906 agba1908 makoré1915 afara1920 agboin1920 abura1921 podo1922 afrormosia1923 guarea1936 Mansonia1936 dahoma1955 utile1956 society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > other woods of African trees citron1627 yellowwood1790 citron wood1880 Gaboon1921 dahoma1955 khaya1956 1790 E. Helme tr. F. Le Vaillant Trav. Afr. II. xiv. 288 I also remarked the Geele-Houtt, (yellow-wood [Fr. le Geele-Houtt (bois jaune)]) so called from its colour: which..is very serviceable for planks, beams, and rafters. 1801 J. Barrow Acct. Trav. Interior S. Afr. 1797–8 I. iii. 133 The most common was the geel hout or yellow wood, (taxus elongatus) erroneously called by Thunberg the ilex crocea. 1871 H. H. Dugmore Reminisc. Albany Settler 27 Plain dinners and hearty suppers,..served up in tin dishes on yellow wood benches. 1887 E. E. Money Little Dutch Maiden II. v. 85 The tree, a huge yellow-wood, stood at the edge of the bush. 1915 H. R. Haggard Holy Flower iv. 63 It..rolled under a great yellow-wood chest. 1969 T. H. Everett Living Trees of World 21/1 The commonest are upright yellow-wood (P. latifolia) and Outeniqua yellow-wood (P. falcata). 1985 New Yorker 18 Mar. 65/2 Old yellowwood and stinkwood chests. 2005 Femina (S. Afr.) Feb. 128/3 Our vegetation: from cycads and fynbos to yellowwoods and traditional medicinal herbs. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1583 |
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