单词 | dog-tree |
释义 | dog-treen. 1. Any of various dogwoods, esp. the common dogwood, Cornus sanguinea. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > cornus (dogwood and allies) > [noun] gaiterc1000 dog-tree1548 cornel1551 dogberry1551 prick tree1551 hound's-berry1578 hound's-tree1578 prick-timber tree1578 dwarf honeysuckle1597 dogwood1598 sanguine-rod1601 prickwood1691 bloody twig1759 rose willow1798 red osier1807 swamp dogwood1817 stone-berry?1838 bunch-berry1845 cornus1846 silky cornel1848 silky dogwood1900 pagoda tree1978 1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. C.v Cornus... The female is plentuous in Englande & the buchers make prickes of it, some cal it Gadrise or dog tree. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage iii. xvi. 275 The barke of the Cornell or dogge-tree. 1658 tr. G. della Porta Nat. Magick iii. xii. 87 They saw that such fruits as have in them the hardest stones, do grow upon such trees as have in them the hardest pith; as the Dog-tree, the Olive-tree, the Damosin-tree. a1734 J. Clarke tr. Ovid Metamorphoses (1741) vii. 209 If it was wild ash, it would be of a brown colour; if it was of dog-tree, there would be knots in it. 1786 North-country Angler i. 3 I have tried barbary, brier and dog-tree, but upon trial have found fault with them all. 1828 C. S. Rafinesque Med. Flora U.S. I. 131 Cornus florida... Vulgar Names—Dogwood, Dogtree, Boxtree. 1859 W. J. Buck Hist. Montgomery County 94/2 Southwest along the said Manor line eighteen hundred and forty-eight perches to a dog tree by the said river. 1907 E. Step Wayside & Woodland Trees 116 It [sc. dogwood] was also called Dog-tree, Dog-berry, Dog-timber..and Houndberry, and to explain the name it was said that the bark made an excellent wash for mangy dogs. 2. Chiefly English regional. Any of various other plants resembling the dogwood in some way or used to make skewers, esp. (a) the elder, Sambucus nigra; (b) the spindle tree, Euonymus europaeus; †(c) the guelder rose, Viburnum opulus (obsolete). ΚΠ 1703 R. Thoresby Let. 27 Apr. in J. Ray Corr. (1848) 420 Bur-tree, an elder or dog-tree. 1743 H. Bracken Traveller's Pocket-farrier 95 Take a Piece of Elder-Wood, commonly called Dog-tree. 1886 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names 157 Dog-tree..(2) Euonymus europæus, L. Warw. 1886 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names App. 530 Dog-tree..(5) Viburnum Opulus, L. Warw. 1907 J. A. Wheldon & A. Wilson Flora W. Lancs. 210 Sambucus nigra..—Elder. ‘Burtree’ or ‘Boatery’. Called locally ‘Dog Tree’ by farmers. 1955 G. Grigson Englishman's Flora 119 Dog-tree, War; foulrush, Bucks. [Local names for the spindle-tree.] 1955 G. Grigson Englishman's Flora 246 Dog-tree, Lancs, Yks, N Eng; halse-bush, Dev; Irish mahogany (from the reddish timber). [Local names for the alder.] 1996 R. Mabey Flora Britannica 342/2 Elder, Sambucus nigra (Battery, Dog tree, Ellern, Fairy tree). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1548 |
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