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swamp-oak
1. In N. America, a name for several species of oak growing in swamps: for distinguishing names of the species see quots. 1817, 1845–50, 1874.
1683Penn Let. to Committee 4 Oak of divers sorts, as Red, White and Black, Spanish Chestnut and Swamp, the most durable of all. 1766J. Bartram Jrnl. 4 Jan. in Stork Acc. E. Florida 22 The east banks being sandy 8 or 10 foot perpendicular, full of live and swamp-oaks. 1817W. Darby Geogr. Descr. Louisiana 355 Quercus lyrata. Swamp white oak. 1821T. Nuttall Jrnl. Trav. Arkansa Terr. 71 Quercus palustris (the swamp oak). 1845–50A. H. Lincoln Lect. Bot. App. 152 Quercus prinus (swamp chestnut-oak)..bicolor (swamp white-oak). 1854Lowell Indian Summer Reverie viii, The swamp-oak with his royal purple on, Glares red as blood across the sinking sun. 1874Asa Gray's Less. Bot. 454 Q. palustris (Swamp Spanish, or Pin Oak).
2. In Australia:
a. A leguminous shrub, Viminaria denudata, also called swamp-broom.
1833C. Sturt S. Australia I. i. 53 Light brushes of swamp-oak, cypress, box, and acacia pendula.
b. Name for various species of Casuarina: cf. she-oak.
1837J. D. Lang New S. Wales II. 118 The river Macquarie,..having its banks occasionally ornamented with a handsome though rather melancholy-looking tree, called the swamp-oak. 1882Hardy in Proc. Berw. Nat. Club IX. No. 3. 434 The rough-looking Swamp Oak or Tinian Pine (Casuarina equisetifolia), which was first introduced to Britain from the South Sea islands by Admiral Byron in 1766. |