fever treen.

Brit.

/ˈfiːvə triː/, U.S.

/ˈfivər ˌtri/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: fever n.¹, tree n.

Etymology: < fever n.¹ + tree n. In sense 1 after Spanish palo de calenturas (late 17th cent. or earlier).

1. Any of various cinchona trees, the bark of which contains quinine and other alkaloids and was the earliest effective treatment for malaria. Cf. fever bark n. at fever n.¹ Compounds 7.

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1727 P. Shaw tr. Dispensatory Royal Coll. Physicians Edinb. 11 (note) The simple here meant is the bark of a certain tree growing in the West-Indies, and called by the Spaniards Palo de Cassenturas, or Fever-Tree, on account of its surprizing efficacy in the cure of that distemper.

1880 Brown's Coffee Planter's Man. (new ed.) 223 We seem to have yet a good deal to learn regarding the fever-trees and their likes and dislikes.

2018 Times 8 Aug. 7/5 This included travelling to..the Democratic Republic of Congo to find the purest quinine, which is harvested from the cinchona or ‘fever tree’.

2. U.S. A shrub or small tree native to the southeastern United States, Pinckneya bracteata (family Rubiaceae), having large oval leaves, tubular yellowish flowers with enlarged pink or white bracts, and bark (formerly) used for the treatment of fevers; also called Georgia bark, bitter-bark. Now rare.

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1830 C. S. Rafinesque Med. Flora U.S. II. 57 Pinckneya pubens... Bitter Bark, Georgia Bark, Florida Bark, Fever-tree.

1897 G. B. Sudworth Nomencl. Arborescent Flora U.S. (U.S. Dept. Agric.) 337 Pinckneya pubens Michx. Fevertree.

1956 Dict. Gardening (Royal Hort. Soc.) (ed. 2) III. 1574/2 P[inckneya] pubens. Bitter-bark, Fever-tree, Georgia Bark.

3. More fully Australian fever tree. Any of various eucalyptus trees, esp. the blue gum Eucalyptus globulus. Now historical and rare.Eucalyptus oil has been used in the treatment of fevers, but the trees were also planted in damp, malaria-prone areas to improve drainage and (supposedly) air quality.

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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > Australasian trees > [noun] > eucalyptus trees

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1867 Argus (Melbourne) 17 Oct. 5/4 Dr. Mueller calls our attention to a fact which he believes is not generally known in Victoria—viz, that our so-called ‘gum-trees’ have in the South of Europe received the name of ‘The Fever Tree’.

1874 Sci. Amer. 14 Feb. 103/1 (heading) The Australian Fever Tree.

1902 Plant World 5 198 Eucalyptus is thought to be of value in malarial regions in absorbing or warding off noxious emanations; hence, several are known as fever trees.

1991 M. Castleman Healing Herbs (1995) 236 Reports of similar incidents [of cure with eucalyptus tea] slowly made their way back to Europe, and the herb became known as ‘Australian fever tree’.

4. A large acacia tree native to southern and eastern Africa, Acacia xanthophloea (or Vachellia xanthophloea), having distinctive greenish-yellow, flaking bark, and typically growing in low-lying damp areas (and thus taken as indicator of endemic malaria).

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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > acacia trees > [noun]

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1893 R. Blennerhassett & L. Sleeman Adventures Mashonaland iii. 99 These ‘fever trees’ are a species of mimosa, with pallid boles and livid green foliage, and the experienced explorer always avoids their neighbourhood.

1902 R. Kipling Just So Stories 65 Go to the banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees, and find out.

1958 H. Wicht Road below Me 146 There are still groves of fever trees, yellow-barked and leprous.

1963 I. DeVore & S. L. Washburn in F. C. Howell & F. Bourlière Afr. Ecol. & Human Evol. 350 At both Nairobi Park and Amboseli baboon troops usually slept in the tall fever trees (Acacia xanthophloea) which grow only where the water table is high.

2004 C. Bryant & B. Lomba Afr. Trees 16 Another haunting area near the Mzinene River is the flood plain filled with Fever Trees (Acacia xanthophloea).

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	fever tree
释义	fever treen. Brit. /ˈfiːvə triː/, U.S. /ˈfivər ˌtri/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: fever n.¹, tree n. Etymology: < fever n.¹ + tree n. In sense 1 after Spanish palo de calenturas (late 17th cent. or earlier). 1. Any of various cinchona trees, the bark of which contains quinine and other alkaloids and was the earliest effective treatment for malaria. Cf. fever bark n. at fever n.¹ Compounds 7. ΚΠ 1727 P. Shaw tr. Dispensatory Royal Coll. Physicians Edinb. 11 (note) The simple here meant is the bark of a certain tree growing in the West-Indies, and called by the Spaniards Palo de Cassenturas, or Fever-Tree, on account of its surprizing efficacy in the cure of that distemper. 1880 Brown's Coffee Planter's Man. (new ed.) 223 We seem to have yet a good deal to learn regarding the fever-trees and their likes and dislikes. 2018 Times 8 Aug. 7/5 This included travelling to..the Democratic Republic of Congo to find the purest quinine, which is harvested from the cinchona or ‘fever tree’. 2. U.S. A shrub or small tree native to the southeastern United States, Pinckneya bracteata (family Rubiaceae), having large oval leaves, tubular yellowish flowers with enlarged pink or white bracts, and bark (formerly) used for the treatment of fevers; also called Georgia bark, bitter-bark. Now rare. ΚΠ 1830 C. S. Rafinesque Med. Flora U.S. II. 57 Pinckneya pubens... Bitter Bark, Georgia Bark, Florida Bark, Fever-tree. 1897 G. B. Sudworth Nomencl. Arborescent Flora U.S. (U.S. Dept. Agric.) 337 Pinckneya pubens Michx. Fevertree. 1956 Dict. Gardening (Royal Hort. Soc.) (ed. 2) III. 1574/2 P[inckneya] pubens. Bitter-bark, Fever-tree, Georgia Bark. 3. More fully Australian fever tree. Any of various eucalyptus trees, esp. the blue gum Eucalyptus globulus. Now historical and rare.Eucalyptus oil has been used in the treatment of fevers, but the trees were also planted in damp, malaria-prone areas to improve drainage and (supposedly) air quality. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > Australasian trees > [noun] > eucalyptus trees yellow box1662 gum tree1676 white gum tree1733 whip-stick1782 peppermint1790 red gum tree1790 red mahogany1798 white gum1798 box1801 blue gum1802 eucalyptus1809 box tree1819 black-butted gum1820 bloodwood1827 white ash1830 blackbutt1833 morrel1837 mountain ash1837 mallee scrub1845 apple gum1846 flooded gum1847 Moreton Bay ash1847 mallee1848 swamp gum1852 box-gum1855 manna gum1855 white top1856 river gum1860 grey box1861 woolly butt1862 marlock1863 fever tree1867 red ironbark1867 river white gum1867 karri1870 yellow jacket1876 eucalypt1877 yapunyah1878 coolibah1879 scribbly gum1883 forest mahogany1884 yellow jack1884 rose gum1885 Jimmy Low1887 nankeen gum1889 slaty gum1889 sugar-gum1889 apple box1890 Murray red gum1895 creek-gum1898 eucalyptian1901 forest red gum1904 river red gum1920 napunyah1921 whitewash gum1923 ghost gum1928 snow gum1928 Sydney blue gum1932 salmon gum1934 lapunyah1940 1867 Argus (Melbourne) 17 Oct. 5/4 Dr. Mueller calls our attention to a fact which he believes is not generally known in Victoria—viz, that our so-called ‘gum-trees’ have in the South of Europe received the name of ‘The Fever Tree’. 1874 Sci. Amer. 14 Feb. 103/1 (heading) The Australian Fever Tree. 1902 Plant World 5 198 Eucalyptus is thought to be of value in malarial regions in absorbing or warding off noxious emanations; hence, several are known as fever trees. 1991 M. Castleman Healing Herbs (1995) 236 Reports of similar incidents [of cure with eucalyptus tea] slowly made their way back to Europe, and the herb became known as ‘Australian fever tree’. 4. A large acacia tree native to southern and eastern Africa, Acacia xanthophloea (or Vachellia xanthophloea), having distinctive greenish-yellow, flaking bark, and typically growing in low-lying damp areas (and thus taken as indicator of endemic malaria). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > acacia trees > [noun] acacia1542 babul1696 marblewood1753 black wattle1802 popinac1809 wattlec1810 wattle-treec1810 giraffe tree1815 haakdoring1822 hookthorn1822 kameeldoorn1822 camel-thorn1824 catechu-tree1829 silver wattle1832 blackthorn1833 thorny acacia1834 boobyalla1835 seyal1844 mulga1848 thorn-wood1850 hackthorn1857 mimosa1857 poison tree1857 Port Jackson1857 talha1857 golden wattle1859 whitethorn acacia1860 buffalo thorn1866 nelia1867 siris1874 cassie1876 couba1878 needlebush1884 sallow wattle1884 sally1884 giddea1885 prickly Moses1887 yarran1888 opopanax tree1889 wait-a-while1889 fever tree1893 giraffe acacia1896 stay-a-while1898 brigalow1901 wirra1904 cootamundra1909 Sydney golden wattle1909 witchetty bush1911 rooikrans1917 jam-tree1934 whistling thorn1949 blackthorn1966 1893 R. Blennerhassett & L. Sleeman Adventures Mashonaland iii. 99 These ‘fever trees’ are a species of mimosa, with pallid boles and livid green foliage, and the experienced explorer always avoids their neighbourhood. 1902 R. Kipling Just So Stories 65 Go to the banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees, and find out. 1958 H. Wicht Road below Me 146 There are still groves of fever trees, yellow-barked and leprous. 1963 I. DeVore & S. L. Washburn in F. C. Howell & F. Bourlière Afr. Ecol. & Human Evol. 350 At both Nairobi Park and Amboseli baboon troops usually slept in the tall fever trees (Acacia xanthophloea) which grow only where the water table is high. 2004 C. Bryant & B. Lomba Afr. Trees 16 Another haunting area near the Mzinene River is the flood plain filled with Fever Trees (Acacia xanthophloea). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1727
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