mahoen.¹

Brit.

/məˈhəʊ/, U.S.

/məˈhoʊ/, Caribbean English

/maˈhoː/

Forms: 1600s–1700s mahot, 1600s–1800s mohoe, 1600s– maho, 1700s moho, 1800s mahoo, 1800s mohaul, 1800s mohaut, 1800s– mahaut, 1800s– mahoe.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French mahot.

Etymology: < French †mahot (17th cent.) < Arawak maho.

Chiefly Caribbean.

1. Any of various tropical trees and large shrubs, chiefly of the family Malvaceae, which are valued for their fibrous bast; esp. (a) either of two hibiscuses, Hibiscus pernambucensis, common in the New World tropics, and (more fully blue mahoe, mountain mahoe) the exclusively West Indian H. elatus, whose wood is shot with blue; (b) (more fully seaside mahoe) an allied pantropical tree of coastal woodland, Thespesia populnea; (c) a tall, flowering evergreen tree of the eastern Caribbean, Sterculia caribaea (family Sterculiaceae). Also mahoe bush, mahoe tree.

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mallowa1425

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mahoe1666

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mahoe1666

poison berry1672

white mangrove1683

maiden plum1696

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garlic-pear1725

milkwood-tree1725

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cherimoya1736

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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > Australasian trees > [noun] > mahoe

mahoe1835

mahoe1845

hina hina1867

1666 J. Davies tr. C. de Rochefort Hist. Caribby-Islands i. viii. 49 Of the Tree called Mahot there are two kinds, Mahot~franc, and Mahot d'herbe.

1670 J. Ogilby America ii. xviii. 348 The Mahot-Tree, of the Bark of which are made Laces and Points.

1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World iii. 37 They make their Lines both for Fishing and Striking with the bark of Maho.

1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. ii. 284 The Mountain Mohoe..grows commonly to a considerable size:..and is generally reckoned an excellent timber-tree.

1763 W. Roberts Acct. First Discov. Florida 96 The shore..[is] cloathed with..vanilla, moho, and cabbage-trees, &c.

1763 T. Robinson in W. Roberts Acct. First Discov. Florida 100 They [sc. Spaniards in Florida] have the moho-tree, a very useful shrub, in great plenty.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VII. 150 Having fed upon the flowers of the mahot..it [sc. the iguana] goes to repose upon the branches of the trees.

1827 O. W. Roberts Narr. Voy. Central Amer. 127 Some of the very low land is covered with water..producing only rank coarse grass and Mohoe bushes.

1845 J. Lindley Veg. Kingdom (1846) 369 From the fibres of the bark of Hibiscus arboreus the whips were manufactured with which the slaves were lashed in the West India Islands; the plant is called Mohoe or Mohaut.

1861 Technologist 2 125 The wood of the ‘Blue mahoe’ (Paritium elatum, Don.) is used in Jamaica for..furniture.

1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 711/1 Mahoe, blue or common, Paritium elatum. —, bombast, Ochroma Lagopus. —, Congo, Hibiscus clypeatus. —, grey or mountain, Paritium elatum. —, seaside, Thespesia populnea.

1869 Proc. Sci. Assoc. Trinidad 1 403 Among those of our most useful forest trees which peculiarly affect the mountains are..the Mahoe tree (Sterculia caribœa, which must not be confounded with the Partium tiliaceum).

1871 C. Kingsley At Last II. xi. 160 We..rode along the firm sand between the sea and the lagoon, through the low wood of Shore Grape and Mahaut, Pinguin and Swamp Seguine.

1933 C. McKay Banana Bottom xxviii. 259 A large..mountain forest with..the finest West Indian hardwood..broadleaf, ebony, sweetwood, bullet tree, mahogany, mahoe.

1949 V. S. Reid New Day i. ii. 17 Barrack-cart..sometimes has no grease on the axle, and that time, the iron rubs on mahoe wood.

1993 S. Carrington Wild Plants Barbados 66/1 Hibiscus pernambucensis... This is the tree most Barbadians call Mahoe, a name derived from an Amerindian word for any fibre-yielding tree.

1993 S. Carrington Wild Plants Barbados 67/2 Thespesia populnea... Anodyne, Mahoe... Throughout the tropics; common; seashore woodland.

2. The wood or the fibre of any of these trees. Frequently attributive.

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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > other woods of West Indies and Central America

guaiacum1533

guaiac1558

lignum vitae1594

sweetwood1607

green ebony1665

princewoodc1665

alligator wood1696

pimento wood1712

greenheart1719

mahoea1726

galimeta-wood1756

determa1769

bullet-wood1843

cocobolo1849

lancewood1858

silver-balli1858

yari-yari1858

Honduras rosewood1860

sabicu1866

amarant1909

a1726 H. Barham Hortus Americanus (1794) 95 The bark of these trees is often called maho.

1827 Hamel, Obeah Man I. 320 He took from under his frock two or three fathoms of mahoe rope.

1838 E. L. Joseph Warner Arundell III. ix. 130 I now recollected having seen a lame negro, making mahoo ropes before his door.

1897 Daily News 10 Mar. 6/3 In rods alone there was an almost endless variety, whether of built cane,..blue mahoe,..or any other material.

1966 in G. R. Coulthard Caribbean Lit. 46 The girl set the big mahoe tray..on the low veranda table.

1969 S. M. Sadeek Windswept & Other Stories 22 There, on an improvised easel of wattle and mahoe, was the painting I had unknowingly posed in.

Compounds

mahoe piment n. a West Indian evergreen tree, Daphnopsis americana ( D. caribaea), of the family Thymelaeaceae.

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1864 A. H. R. Grisebach Flora Brit. W. Indian Islands Index 785/2 Mahoe-piment: Daphnopsis caribæa.

1946 J. S. Beard Nat. Vegetation Trinidad iii. 28 Thymeleaceae. Daphnopsis caribaea Griseb. Mahoe piment.

1981 E. S. Ayensu Medicinal Plants W. Indies 182 Daphnopsis caribaea Griseb., maho piment... Uses: Tea from this and Inga laurina to induce lactation.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

mahoen.²

Brit.

/ˈmɑːhɔɪ/,

/məˈhəʊi/, U.S.

/ˈmɑˌhɔɪ/,

/məˈhoʊi/, New Zealand English

/ˈmʌːhoe/,

/mʌːˈhʌui/

Forms: 1800s mahoi, 1800s– mahoe, 1900s– maahoe.

Origin: A borrowing from Maori. Etymon: Maori māhoe.

Etymology: < Maori māhoe.In U.S. dictionaries commonly listed under the same entry as mahoe n.¹ (although in Webster with Maori etymology noted), and so given the pronunciation /məˈhoʊ/. N.E.D. (1904) gives the pronunciation as (măhō·ˌe /məˈhoːe/.

Chiefly New Zealand.

A small bushy tree of the family Violaceae, Melicytus ramiflorus, with whitish bark and small greenish flowers, native to New Zealand, Fiji, etc. Also called hina hina, whiteywood.

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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > Australasian trees > [noun] > mahoe

mahoe1835

mahoe1845

hina hina1867

1835 W. Yate Acct. N.Z. (ed. 2) 49 Mahoe (Melicytus ramiflorus)..grows to a height of not more than fifty feet.

1838 J. S. Polack New Zealand II. App. vii. 399 The Máhoi is an elegant tree, growing to the height of fifty feet.

1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. at Melicytus M. ramiflorus is the Mahoë of the New Zealanders, which must not be confounded with the Mahoe of the West Indies.

1921 H. Guthrie-Smith Tutira xii. 102 In this light bush, tawa..mahoe or hinahina (Melicytus ramiflorus), ngaio (Myoporum laetum)..were the most common trees and shrubs.

1926 J. Cowan Trav. N.Z. II. 32 A little watercourse..arboured over by a matted roofing of..mahoe or whitewood.

1963 B. Pearson Coal Flat iv. 65 Behind that maahoe..and blackberry and then acres of tailings from an extinct dredge.

1984 Metro (Auckland) Mar. 128/3 Mahoe leaps into one's memory, cabbage tree blooms smell as bright as their appearance, like a Guy Fawkes sparkler.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	mahoe
释义	mahoen.¹ Brit. /məˈhəʊ/, U.S. /məˈhoʊ/, Caribbean English /maˈhoː/ Forms: 1600s–1700s mahot, 1600s–1800s mohoe, 1600s– maho, 1700s moho, 1800s mahoo, 1800s mohaul, 1800s mohaut, 1800s– mahaut, 1800s– mahoe. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French mahot. Etymology: < French †mahot (17th cent.) < Arawak maho. Chiefly Caribbean. 1. Any of various tropical trees and large shrubs, chiefly of the family Malvaceae, which are valued for their fibrous bast; esp. (a) either of two hibiscuses, Hibiscus pernambucensis, common in the New World tropics, and (more fully blue mahoe, mountain mahoe) the exclusively West Indian H. elatus, whose wood is shot with blue; (b) (more fully seaside mahoe) an allied pantropical tree of coastal woodland, Thespesia populnea; (c) a tall, flowering evergreen tree of the eastern Caribbean, Sterculia caribaea (family Sterculiaceae). Also mahoe bush, mahoe tree. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > hibiscus or mallow trees or shrubs and allies > [noun] mallowa1400 mallowa1425 shrubbed mallow1597 shrubby mallow1597 shrub mallow1640 mahoe1666 purau1769 Malabar rose1818 rose of Sharon1835 shuttlecock1836 hau1843 cotton tree1876 the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > South American and West Indian trees or shrubs > [noun] > others persea1601 mahoe1666 poison berry1672 white mangrove1683 maiden plum1696 angelin1704 garlic-pear1725 milkwood-tree1725 Jack-in-the-box1735 cherimoya1736 rattle bush1750 galapee1756 genip1756 lace bark1756 sunfruit1787 wild orange1802 hog-nut1814 mountain pride1814 savannah wattle1814 mora1825 rubber tree1826 mayflower1837 bastard manchineel1838 long john1838 seringa1847 sack tree1849 jumbie tree1860 jumbie bean1862 king-tree1863 gauze-tree1864 mountain green1864 snowdrop tree1864 strong bark1864 switch-sorrel1864 candle-tree1866 maypole1866 angelique1873 poisonwood1884 porkwood1884 the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > Australasian trees > [noun] > mahoe mahoe1835 mahoe1845 hina hina1867 1666 J. Davies tr. C. de Rochefort Hist. Caribby-Islands i. viii. 49 Of the Tree called Mahot there are two kinds, Mahot~franc, and Mahot d'herbe. 1670 J. Ogilby America ii. xviii. 348 The Mahot-Tree, of the Bark of which are made Laces and Points. 1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World iii. 37 They make their Lines both for Fishing and Striking with the bark of Maho. 1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. ii. 284 The Mountain Mohoe..grows commonly to a considerable size:..and is generally reckoned an excellent timber-tree. 1763 W. Roberts Acct. First Discov. Florida 96 The shore..[is] cloathed with..vanilla, moho, and cabbage-trees, &c. 1763 T. Robinson in W. Roberts Acct. First Discov. Florida 100 They [sc. Spaniards in Florida] have the moho-tree, a very useful shrub, in great plenty. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VII. 150 Having fed upon the flowers of the mahot..it [sc. the iguana] goes to repose upon the branches of the trees. 1827 O. W. Roberts Narr. Voy. Central Amer. 127 Some of the very low land is covered with water..producing only rank coarse grass and Mohoe bushes. 1845 J. Lindley Veg. Kingdom (1846) 369 From the fibres of the bark of Hibiscus arboreus the whips were manufactured with which the slaves were lashed in the West India Islands; the plant is called Mohoe or Mohaut. 1861 Technologist 2 125 The wood of the ‘Blue mahoe’ (Paritium elatum, Don.) is used in Jamaica for..furniture. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 711/1 Mahoe, blue or common, Paritium elatum. —, bombast, Ochroma Lagopus. —, Congo, Hibiscus clypeatus. —, grey or mountain, Paritium elatum. —, seaside, Thespesia populnea. 1869 Proc. Sci. Assoc. Trinidad 1 403 Among those of our most useful forest trees which peculiarly affect the mountains are..the Mahoe tree (Sterculia caribœa, which must not be confounded with the Partium tiliaceum). 1871 C. Kingsley At Last II. xi. 160 We..rode along the firm sand between the sea and the lagoon, through the low wood of Shore Grape and Mahaut, Pinguin and Swamp Seguine. 1933 C. McKay Banana Bottom xxviii. 259 A large..mountain forest with..the finest West Indian hardwood..broadleaf, ebony, sweetwood, bullet tree, mahogany, mahoe. 1949 V. S. Reid New Day i. ii. 17 Barrack-cart..sometimes has no grease on the axle, and that time, the iron rubs on mahoe wood. 1993 S. Carrington Wild Plants Barbados 66/1 Hibiscus pernambucensis... This is the tree most Barbadians call Mahoe, a name derived from an Amerindian word for any fibre-yielding tree. 1993 S. Carrington Wild Plants Barbados 67/2 Thespesia populnea... Anodyne, Mahoe... Throughout the tropics; common; seashore woodland. 2. The wood or the fibre of any of these trees. Frequently attributive. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > other woods of West Indies and Central America guaiacum1533 guaiac1558 lignum vitae1594 sweetwood1607 green ebony1665 princewoodc1665 alligator wood1696 pimento wood1712 greenheart1719 mahoea1726 galimeta-wood1756 determa1769 bullet-wood1843 cocobolo1849 lancewood1858 silver-balli1858 yari-yari1858 Honduras rosewood1860 sabicu1866 amarant1909 a1726 H. Barham Hortus Americanus (1794) 95 The bark of these trees is often called maho. 1827 Hamel, Obeah Man I. 320 He took from under his frock two or three fathoms of mahoe rope. 1838 E. L. Joseph Warner Arundell III. ix. 130 I now recollected having seen a lame negro, making mahoo ropes before his door. 1897 Daily News 10 Mar. 6/3 In rods alone there was an almost endless variety, whether of built cane,..blue mahoe,..or any other material. 1966 in G. R. Coulthard Caribbean Lit. 46 The girl set the big mahoe tray..on the low veranda table. 1969 S. M. Sadeek Windswept & Other Stories 22 There, on an improvised easel of wattle and mahoe, was the painting I had unknowingly posed in. Compounds mahoe piment n. a West Indian evergreen tree, Daphnopsis americana ( D. caribaea), of the family Thymelaeaceae. ΚΠ 1864 A. H. R. Grisebach Flora Brit. W. Indian Islands Index 785/2 Mahoe-piment: Daphnopsis caribæa. 1946 J. S. Beard Nat. Vegetation Trinidad iii. 28 Thymeleaceae. Daphnopsis caribaea Griseb. Mahoe piment. 1981 E. S. Ayensu Medicinal Plants W. Indies 182 Daphnopsis caribaea Griseb., maho piment... Uses: Tea from this and Inga laurina to induce lactation. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). mahoen.² Brit. /ˈmɑːhɔɪ/, /məˈhəʊi/, U.S. /ˈmɑˌhɔɪ/, /məˈhoʊi/, New Zealand English /ˈmʌːhoe/, /mʌːˈhʌui/ Forms: 1800s mahoi, 1800s– mahoe, 1900s– maahoe. Origin: A borrowing from Maori. Etymon: Maori māhoe. Etymology: < Maori māhoe.In U.S. dictionaries commonly listed under the same entry as mahoe n.¹ (although in Webster with Maori etymology noted), and so given the pronunciation /məˈhoʊ/. N.E.D. (1904) gives the pronunciation as (măhō·ˌe /məˈhoːe/. Chiefly New Zealand. A small bushy tree of the family Violaceae, Melicytus ramiflorus, with whitish bark and small greenish flowers, native to New Zealand, Fiji, etc. Also called hina hina, whiteywood. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > Australasian trees > [noun] > mahoe mahoe1835 mahoe1845 hina hina1867 1835 W. Yate Acct. N.Z. (ed. 2) 49 Mahoe (Melicytus ramiflorus)..grows to a height of not more than fifty feet. 1838 J. S. Polack New Zealand II. App. vii. 399 The Máhoi is an elegant tree, growing to the height of fifty feet. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. at Melicytus M. ramiflorus is the Mahoë of the New Zealanders, which must not be confounded with the Mahoe of the West Indies. 1921 H. Guthrie-Smith Tutira xii. 102 In this light bush, tawa..mahoe or hinahina (Melicytus ramiflorus), ngaio (Myoporum laetum)..were the most common trees and shrubs. 1926 J. Cowan Trav. N.Z. II. 32 A little watercourse..arboured over by a matted roofing of..mahoe or whitewood. 1963 B. Pearson Coal Flat iv. 65 Behind that maahoe..and blackberry and then acres of tailings from an extinct dredge. 1984 Metro (Auckland) Mar. 128/3 Mahoe leaps into one's memory, cabbage tree blooms smell as bright as their appearance, like a Guy Fawkes sparkler. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.¹1666n.²1835
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mahoen.1

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