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单词 common whitebeam
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common whitebeam
A small deciduous tree of temperate Eurasia, Sorbus aria (family Rosaceae), having large leaves with silky white hairs on the underside and bearing flat corymbs of white flowers succeeded by scarlet berries (also common whitebeam). Also (frequently with distinguishing word): any of a number of similar trees of the genus Sorbus, including apomictic species or microspecies thought to have arisen locally by hybridization of the common whitebeam with the rowan, service, and wild service trees. Frequently attributive, esp. in whitebeam tree.
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whitebeam1633
whip-beam1733
beam-tree1800
hoar withy1879
service-berry1890
1633 T. Johnson Gerard's Herball (new ed.) iii. xxiv. 1327 In some places of this kingdome they call it [sc. the Aria of Theophrastus] a white Beame tree.
1705 S. Dale Pharmacologiæ: Suppl. Index The White-Beam-Tree, Aria.
1772 Philos. Trans. 1771 (Royal Soc.) 61 388 Of all soils this is the most favourable to beech, white-beam, [etc.].
1800 J. E. Smith Eng. Flora (1828) II. 366 Pyrus Aria, White Beam-tree, White Wild Pear-tree.
1863 C. Kingsley Water-babies ii. 48 Whitebeam with its great silver-backed leaves.
1907 Country Life 12 Jan. 45/1 The species of pyrus described at length are the true service, the wild service,..the Swedish whitebeam, the bastard mountain ash and the whitebeam.
1979 I. Opie Jrnl. 26 Sept. in People in Playground (1993) 163 The first fallen whitebeam leaves began somersaulting towards the fence and escaping through the mesh.
2010 National Trust Mag. Summer 8/3 Three new species of whitebeam tree have been discovered at Cheddar Gorge in Somerset.
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