| 单词 | hoop-wood |
| 释义 | > as lemmashoop-wood hoop-wood n. a tree yielding wood suitable for making hoops; (in Jamaica) Calliandra latifolia; (in the United States) the Hoop-ash; the black ash, Fraxinus nigra, or the winterberry, Ilex laevigata; (in Jamaica) Zygia latifolia. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > [noun] > names applied to various types of trees or shrubs whitewood1562 yellowwood1583 lightwood1597 redwood1693 hoop-wood1756 stave-wood1778 whistle-wood1825 whip-cropa1850 pepperwood1858 white tree1863 1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. ii. 279 Horse-wood, or Hoop-wood... The wood is pretty tough, and sometimes cut for hoops. 1770 G. Washington Writings (1889) II. 302 I marked two maples, an elm, and hoop-wood tree..I also marked..an ash and hoop-wood. 1821 J. Fowler Jrnl. (1898) 21 We get out at our ushal time; at ten miles pased a point of Rocks and a Hoop wood tree on them. 1908 N. L. Britton N. Amer. Trees 622 Winterberry—Ilex lævigata..is also called the Smooth winterberry and Hoopwood. 1920 W. Fawcett & A. B. Rendle Flora Jamaica IV. 150 (heading) Z[ygia] latifolia..Horse wood, hoop wood. < as lemmas |
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