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单词 krummholz
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krummholzn.

/ˈkrʌmhɒlts/
Etymology: German krummholz crooked wood, the popular name of a dwarf pine, Pinus mugo variant pumilio, adopted as the name for a particular type of vegetation by A. Grisebach in Vegetation der Erde (1872) II. xxiii. 488.
= elfin-wood n. at elfin n. 4.
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1903 W. R. Fisher tr. A. F. W. Schimper Plant-geogr. iii. ii. 704 We contrast alpine grassland, alpine shrubland, and alpine desert with those of the lowlands, and retain for alpine forest merely the title elfin-wood. Note, ‘Elfin-wood’ and ‘elfin-tree’ are the terms introduced here as the equivalents of ‘Krummholz’.]
1908 Bot. Gaz. 45 334 The Krummholz is composed of two trees only... In its Krummholz form it [sc. Pinus flexilis] assumes the most fantastic shapes.
1942 R. Peattie Friendly Mountains 162 The upper part of the spruce slope dwindles to a ‘scrub’ forest, or ‘krummholz’.
1964 H. A. Gleason & A. Cronquist Nat. Geogr. Plants ix. 101 (caption) Dense, stunted growth of the sort here shown is known as Krummholz.
1967 Jrnl. Glaciol. 6 820 Shading by krummholz spruce and fir, blueberry and willow.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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