| 单词 | ailanthus tree |
| 释义 | > as lemmasailanthus tree More fully ailanthus tree. Any of several fast-growing, pinnate-leaved trees constituting the chiefly East Asian genus Ailanthus (family Simaroubaceae); esp. the tree of heaven, A. altissima, native to China and now naturalized in parts of Europe and North America, where it has been widely planted as a shade tree and for ornament but is now considered invasive. Also (in form Ailanthus): the genus itself. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > sumacs > [noun] buck's-horna1450 rhus?1541 sumac1548 Venice sumac1597 poisonwood1671 poison tree1676 swamp sumac1722 urushi1727 stag-horn1753 Venetian sumac1755 poison ash1757 ipoh1779 poison sumac1785 ailanthus tree1789 Japan varnish1789 vinegar-plant1797 mountain sumac1813 poison dogwood1814 upas1814 karee1815 fustet1821 taaibos1821 poison elder1822 varnish sumac1822 Japan lacquer1835 tree of heaven1845 anacard1847 smoke plant1856 tanners' sumac1858 swamp dogwood1859 smoke-tree1860 wax-tree1866 wig-sumac1867 wig-tree1867 burnwood1874 vinegar-tree1874 mountain manchineel1884 valley of death tree1888 sugar-bush1900 smoke bush1902 1789 W. Aiton Hortus Kewensis III. 443 Tall Ailanthus. 1807 T. Martyn Miller's Gardener's & Botanist's Dict. (rev. ed.) I. i. (at cited word) The Ailanthus grows very fast in our climate, and..is proper for ornamental plantations. 1845 H. B. Hirst Coming of Mammoth 158 O'er me let a green Ailanthus grow..the Tree of Heaven. 1861 Times 23 July This silkworm lives in the open air on a very hardy plant called the ‘ailante’, or Japan varnish tree. 1871 F. P.Smith Contrib. Towards Materia Medica & Nat. Hist. China 6 This species of Ailanthus grows all over China, and is met with on the walls of Peking. 1879 Times 5 Aug. 11/6 The ailanto tree of Japan..is of rapid growth, and admirably adapted for covering waste species. 1880 Sci. Amer. 21 Aug. 120/2 Two years ago the city was sued by the family of a lady who was killed by the fall of an ailantus tree in Eleventh street. 1886 Garden 14 Aug. 142/2 The Ailanto possesses a very different aspect in its ripe old age from the saplings of it often met with. 1902 J. E. Rogers Among Green Trees i. 33 I saw Ailanthus trees next on a rough hillside... Unmindful of the protests of the lawful owner, they had seized the land. 1941 T. S. Eliot Dry Salvages i. 7 The rank ailanthus of the April dooryard. 1974 K. Millett Flying (1975) ii. 197 An ailanthus, the only ratlike tree that can grow in our soil. 2011 New Yorker 31 Jan. 23/2 You've got your scrappy weeds, like the ailanthus. < as lemmas |
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