| 单词 | california redwood |
| 释义 | > as lemmasCalifornia redwood 2. Any of various trees with reddish wood; (in later use) esp. (more fully California redwood, coast redwood) the very large, long-lived conifer Sequoia sempervirens, native to coastal areas of northern California and Oregon. 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 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 1693 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 17 687 Thapangam, call'd by the Dutch Rasphout, not unlike the Red Wood of Brasil in all its parts. 1716 Petiveriana iii. 4/1 Red Wood [of Barbadoes]. 1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. ii. 278 Red-wood, or Iron-wood... This is a small, but a beautiful tree. 1819 D. B. Warden Statist., Polit. & Hist. Acct. U.S. III. 97 In the lower parts are found oak, elm,..red-wood, sumach. 1850 B. Taylor Eldorado I. vii. 47 A few miles west of the Pueblo there is a large forest of redwood, or Californian cypress. 1883 Harper's Mag. Jan. 210/2 When the glade began to narrow into a cañon the redwoods appeared—magnificent specimens..rising straight two hundred feet. 1905 H. W. Felter & J. U. Lloyd King's Amer. Dispensatory (ed. 19) I. 318 Soymida febrifuga..is the Rohuna or Rohun tree of Hindustan, and is known on the Coromandel coast of India as Redwood tree, and is the only known species of the genus. 1947 Life 17 Nov. 142/2 The rest of the day is spent in the composition of..a speech to stir up interest in the preservation of the California redwoods. 1968 R. Kroetsch Alberta iii. 85 The higher lands were lush with palms, sycamores, redwoods, fig trees, and magnolias. 2006 New Yorker 9 Oct. 32/1 The coast redwood, or Sequoia sempervirens, which is most often simply called the redwood, is a massive conifer. < as lemmas |
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