单词 | krummholz |
释义 | krummholzn. = elfin-wood n. at elfin n. 4. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > pine > types of bog fir1770 ocote1787 Georgia pine1796 Labrador pine1803 pumpkin pine1809 Banksian pine1831 bog-pine1842 tamarack pine1843 tamarack1864 Baltic pine1866 Norway pine1866 slash-pine1882 Queensland kauri1889 krummholz1908 fat-wood1909 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). < n.1908 |
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