| 单词 | dogberry tree |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdogberry tree a. More fully dogberry tree. Any of several dogwoods (genus Cornus); esp. C. sanguinea, common dogwood (cf. dogwood n. 1). Now chiefly 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 1551 W. Turner New Herball sig. M jv The female is called of some doge berry tree: sume call it corn tree. 1597 J. Gerard Herball iii. xcix. 1283 The female Cornell, or Dog berrie tree. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Cornillier femelle, Hounds-tree, Dog-berrie tree, Prick-tymber tree. 1660 J. Ray Catalogus Plantarum Cantabrigiam 39 Cornus fœmina..Dogberry or Gatter tree. 1732 J. Martyin tr. J. P. de Tournefort Hist. Plants growing about Paris 204 The female Cornel, or Dog-berry-tree, or Gatter-tree, or Prickwood. Common in hedges. 1776 W. Withering Brit. Plants (1801) II. 198 Cornus sanguinea, Dogberry tree, Hounds tree, Hounds berry, Prick wood, Prick timber. 1823 H. Phillips Sylva Florifera II. 183 It [sc. Cornus sanguinea] is often called female cornel, to distinguish it from cornus mascula, and hound's berry-tree, hound's-tree, dog's berry-tree. 1861 E. Waugh Goblin's Grave 30 Thickets composed of dogberry stalks, wild rose-bushes, hollins,..and fern, mingled with young hazels, and ash plants. 1893 H. Dalziel Dis. Dogs (ed. 3) 97 Among preventives of hydrophobia..in vogue one time or another..; leaves of the dog-berry tree. 1907 A. Gaut Seaside Planting of Trees & Shrubs vii. 77 Cornus sanguinea, Dogberry; Common Dogwood. 1940 W. N. Clute Amer. Plant Names (ed. 3) 98 C. stolonifera. Red Osier..Dogberry tree. 1974 Daily Times-News (Burlington, N. Carolina) 17 Apr. c1/1 It [sc. dogwood] was widely known in the 16th century as dogberry, and it has been said that it acquired this name because the berries were so bitter..that they ‘were not fit to be thrown to the dogs’. < as lemmas |
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