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pitch-tree
[f. pitch n.1 + tree n.]
Name for various coniferous trees abounding in resin, or yielding resin, turpentine, or pitch.
In earlier use chiefly rendering L. picea or Gr. πεύκη, prob. Pinus Laricio, the Corsican Pine (Daubeny); in mod. use applied to the Silver Fir (Abies or Picea pectinata), the Spruce Fir (Abies or Picea excelsa) as the source of Burgundy pitch, the Kauri Pine (Dammara australis) as that of kauri-gum, and the Amboyna Pine (D. orientalis) as that of dammar resin.
1538Elyot, Picea, a piche tree. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. (1586) 95 The Pitch tree is called in Greeke πεύκη, in Latine Picea, in Italian Pezzo. 1584Voy. Virginia in Hakluyt Voy. (1810) III. 303 Their boates are made of one tree, either of Pine or of Pitch trees: a wood not commonly knowen to our people, nor found growing in England. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. ii. 349 Black Ivy, Pitch Trees, and the baleful Yeugh. 1766Compl. Farmer s.v. Aphernousli, The branches resemble these of the pitch-trees, commonly called the spruce fir. 1866Treas. Bot., Pitch-tree, Abies excelsa. |