单词 | hard-wooded |
释义 | hard-woodedadj. 1. Esp. of a tree: having hard wood; (also) of hard wood. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > part of tree or woody plant > wood > [adjective] > of soft or hard wood softwood1539 hard-wooded1678 society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > [adjective] > consisting of or relating to hard wood hearty1466 hard-wooded1678 1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. i. 78 To stuff thy Skin with Swelling Knobs, Of Cruel and hard wooded Drubs? 1727 B. Langley New Princ. Gardening iv. i. 176 'Tis best to let the Layers of the Arbutus, and such hard-wooded Trees, remain on the Stools at least two Years before they are taken off. 1806 B. M'Mahon Amer. Gardener's Cal. 143 It may be of advantage, in laying some of the more hard-wooded kinds [of trees or shrubs], to gash or slit the layers an inch or better by an upward cut on the under side. 1822 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Gardening iii. iii. 1134 We shall arrange the whole as resinous, hard-wooded, and soft-wooded trees. 1929 H. A. A. Nicholls & J. H. Holland Text-bk. Trop. Agric. (ed. 2) ii. xix. 581 The ‘Shea Butter’ tree (Butyrospermum Parkii ). A tree 30 to 40 feet high..native of West Africa... It is a slow-growing, hard-wooded tree. 2004 Old-house Jrnl. Feb. 39 Both [sc. American hornbeam and hop hornbeam] are strong, hard-wooded, clean-looking trees with fine texture and graceful form. 2. Of or relating to broadleaved or dicotyledonous trees (as opposed to coniferous trees). Cf. hardwood n. 1a. Now rare. ΚΠ 1833 Gardener's Mag. 9 276 The habit of planting pines, to the almost exclusion of hard-wooded trees, has long been matter of complaint. 1850 Hooker's Jrnl. Bot. 2 297 The timber..appeared of medium size, with single trees of apparently large dimensions, for the most part hard-wooded or deciduous, but at intervals clumps or entire groves of pine crowned the elevated banks. 1963 Country Life 17 Jan. 92/1 The Council for the Preservation of Rural England urges the Commission to plant more deciduous, hard-wooded trees. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1678 |
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