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lote-tree arch.
Also 7 loat-.
[lote n.1]
a. The Nettle-tree, Celtis australis.
b. The jujube-tree, Zizyphus Lotus, identified with the tree that bore the mythical lotus-fruit.
c. The date-plum, Diospyros Lotus (Treas. Bot. 1866).
d. Identified with the lotus-lily (lotus 4), erroneously supposed to be a tree.
1548Turner Names of Herbes 24 Celtis..it hath a leafe lyke a Nettel, therfore it may be called in englishe Nettel tree or Lote tree. 1601Holland Pliny I. 494 At Rome..there is yet to be seene a Lote tree standing before the said chappell. 1611Cotgr., Micocoulier d' Afrique. Th' African Lote, or Nettle, tree; of whose blacke wood excellent Flutes are made. 1626Bacon Sylva §583 The Lasting of Plants is most in those that are Largest of Body; as Oakes, Elme, Ches-nut, the Loat-Tree, &c. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iv. §18. 336 As the Egyptian Hieroglyphick for Material and Corporeal things, was Mud or floating Water, so they pictur'd God, in Loto arbore sedentem super Lutum, sitting upon the Lote-tree above the Watery Mud. 1741Compl. Fam.-Piece ii. iii. 374 Lote or Nettle-tree. 1825Greenhouse Comp. II. 82 Z[izyphus] Lotus, a small tree from Barbary, supposed by some to be the Lote-tree of Pliny. 1855J. R. Planché Fairy T. C'tess d' Aulnoy (1858) 359 A part of the river-side, shaded by willows and lote-trees [Fr. alisiers]. 1884J. Payne 1001 Nts. VIII. 70 The lote⁓tree doth itself array In some fresh beauty every day. 1887Browning Parleyings, G. de Lairesse v, Could I gaze intent On Dryope plucking the blossoms red..Whereat her lote⁓tree writhed and bled.
attrib.1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts 627 The Loote-tree-root [tr. L. loti radix]. 1833Tennyson Œnone Poems 56 The smoothswarded bower..with lotetree-fruit thickset. 1884J. Payne Tales fr. Arabic II. 31 note, Lote-tree leaves dried and powdered..are strewn over the dead body. |