α. 1800s haaken doorn, 1800s–1900s haakdoorn, 1800s–1900s haakedoorn.
β. 1900s hakdoring, 1900s– haakdoring.
单词 | haakdoring |
释义 | haakdoringn.α. 1800s haaken doorn, 1800s–1900s haakdoorn, 1800s–1900s haakedoorn. β. 1900s hakdoring, 1900s– haakdoring. South African. Any of various trees or shrubs having hooked thorns, esp. the blackthorn, Acacia mellifera subsp. detinens, or similar species of the genus Acacia, and (now less commonly) the grapple-plant, Harpagophytum procumbens. Cf. hackthorn n., hookthorn n. 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 1822 W. J. Burchell Trav. Interior S. Afr. I. xiii. 320 I halted..to gather a beautiful parasitic plant, growing on the branches of a Haakdoorn. 1864 J. T. Baines Explor. S.-W. Afr. vi. 147 I noticed a large hooked seed of the creeping plant, sometimes called Haak-doorn, but more properly the Grappler. 1868 S. Afr. Mag. Sept. 547 The forests are magnificent, and, what hunters will be glad to hear, there is little or nothing of that abominable underwood, haakdoorn and sickle thorn briars, so very annoying to sportsmen. 1907 T. R. Sim Forests & Forest Flora Cape Good Hope 15 In dry stony situations the scrubby Haakedoorn (Acacia detinens) and the Wild Olive..were the prevailing trees or shrubs. 1913 C. Pettman Africanderisms 203 Haakdoorn,..Burchell gives this name to Acacia detinens, the Wacht-en-bitje... It seems now to be more frequently applied, however, to Harpagophyllum procumbens. 1936 H. F. Trew Botha Treks 19 The corporal and a constable and I..proceeded in the direction of the screams, to find our drunken visitor..caught in a haakdoorn bush. 1993 House & Leisure Nov. 50 The reality can be grim... Mosquito larvae jackknifing through your drinking water. Haakdorings and Puff adders. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1822 |
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