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ˈsnowdrop tree
[f. prec.]
1. The Virginian fringe-tree, Chionanthus virginica.
1731Miller Gard. Dict., Arbor Zeylanica,..the Snow⁓drop Tree... This Tree is very hardy in respect to Cold, standing abroad in the open Air. 1753Chambers's Cycl. Suppl., Snow-drop-tree, a very beautiful American tree, which bears the cold of our climate in the open air. Ibid., App., Snow-drop-tree, the English name of a genus of trees, called by botanists chionanthus. 1760J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 327. 1866 Treas. Bot. 270/2 Chionanthus, the Snowdrop tree of North America [etc.].
2. A North American styraceous tree or shrub of the genus Halesia, bearing clusters of drooping white flowers.
1813H. Muhlenberg Catal. Plant. Amer. 46 Silverbell tree, or Four-winged Snow-drop tree. 1823Crabb Technol. Dict. s.v. Halesia, Four-winged Halesia, or Snow-drop Tree. 1831Audubon Ornith. Biog. I. 123 The Snow-Drop Tree, Silver-Bell Tree, or Wild Olive. 1857Henfrey Elem. Bot. §509 Halesia tetraptera, another North American plant, is called the Snowdrop-tree, on account of its numerous white bell-shaped blossoms. 1875Encycl. Brit. II. 320 The snow-drop tree..is one of the hardiest of North American trees.
3. A West Indian tree (see quots.).
1864Grisebach Flora Brit. W. Ind. 787/2 Snowdrop tree, Hænianthus incrassatus. 1889Cent. Dict. s.v. Linociera, L. incrassata of Jamaica, a large tree with panicles of white flowers, is called snowdrop-tree.
4. African snowdrop tree, = snowdrop 2 (quot. 1891).
1895in Funk's Stand. Dict. |