| 单词 | mountain mahogany |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmountain mahogany mountain mahogany n. U.S. (a) the sweet birch, Betula lenta (cf. mountain birch n.); (b) any of various shrubs of the genus Cercocarpus (family Rosaceae), noted for their red wood and long-tailed fruits; esp. C. ledifolius, of western North America. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > birch and allies > [noun] bircha700 birch-tree1530 weeping birch1606 Our Lady's tree1608 black birch1674 sugar-birch1751 white birch1766 red birch1774 yellow birch1774 paper birch1791 canoe birch1810 mountain mahogany1810 old field birch1810 mahogany birch1813 towai1845 river birch1846 kamahi1867 silver birch1884 wire birch1899 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > non-British timber trees > [noun] > North American arrowwood1578 white pine1682 wicopy1704 American olive1772 pumpkin pine1809 mountain mahogany1810 redwood1819 western yellow pine1857 western hemlock1867 western red cedar1874 Sitka cedar1875 ponderosa1878 walking stick1910 1810 F. A. Michaux Histoire des Arbres Forestiers de l'Amérique Septentrionale I. 26 Sweet birch, Mountain Mahogany..dans une partie de la Virginie. 1832 D. J. Browne Sylva Americana 118 Wherever it grows in the United States, it is known by the name of Black Birch: its secondary denominations are Mountain Mahogany in Virginia, [etc.]. 1875 Amer. Naturalist 9 201 Much more attractive with its glossy foliage and long feathery seeds, is the mountain mahogany Cercocarpus ledifolius Nutt. 1951 Dict. Gardening (Royal Hort. Soc.) I. 440/1 C[ercocarpus] ledifolius. Mountain mahogany. Erect slender tree up to 40 ft. 1995 Inside Fort Collins (Colorado) 2 Feb. 1/3 Gray, dormant clumps of mountain mahogany dot the slopes. < as lemmas |
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