单词 | mountain oak |
释义 | mountain oakn. 1. a. Chiefly poetic. An oak growing in mountainous country. Now rare. ΚΠ 1609 T. Heywood Troia Britanica iii. xcvii. 75 Such blowes, cleaue Rocks, and fell the mountain-Oakes. 1755 T. Smollett tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote I. iii. ii. 165 The leaves of these mountain-oaks. 1841 J. W. Ord Bard 57 Thy regal mountain oak, Which from its seat so long hath braved the whirlwind's fiercest stroke. 1907 A. B. Thompson Pilgrim's Reply in Harvest of Thoughts 37 The old mountain oaks, did nod on the breeze, And kept a time with the song. b. spec. in U.S. Any of various species of oak (genus Quercus). Cf. mountain chestnut oak n., mountain white oak n. at mountain n. and adj. Compounds 2d. Also: the wood of any of these oaks. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > oak and allies > [noun] > other oaks red oakOE cerre-tree1577 gall-tree1597 robur1601 kermes1605 live oak1610 white oak1610 royal oak1616 swamp-oak1683 grey oak1697 rock oak1699 chestnut oak1703 water oak1709 Spanish oak1716 turkey-oak1717 willow oak1717 iron oak1724 maiden oak1725 scarlet oak1738 black jack1765 post oak1775 durmast1791 mountain chestnut oak1801 quercitron oak1803 laurel oak1810 mossy-cup oak1810 rock chestnut oak1810 pin oak1812 overcup oak1814 overcup white oak1814 bur oak1815 jack oak1816 mountain oak1818 shingle-oak1818 gall-oak1835 peach oak1835 golden oak1838 weeping oak1838 Aleppo oak1845 Italian oak1858 dyer's oak1861 Gambel's Oak1878 maul oak1884 punk oak1884 sessile oak1906 Garry oak1908 roble1908 1818 A. Eaton Man. Bot. (ed. 2) ii. 393 Quercus..montana..mountain oak. 1883 E. A. Smith Rep. Geol. Surv. Alabama 1881–2 296 On the high lands..are found..the mountain or tan-bark oak [etc.]. 1950 D. C. Peattie Nat. Hist. Trees E. & Central N. Amer. 206 Quercus montana..Mountain Oak..is a fine, soldierly sort of Oak, for the column of its trunk may rise 100 feet. 1979 E. L. Little Checklist U.S. Trees 228 Quercus douglasii... Blue oak... Other common names..mountain oak. 2. Australian. Any of several trees growing in mountainous country; esp. a she-oak (genus Allocasuarina, family Casuarinaceae) of south-eastern Australia. Also: the wood of any of these trees. ΚΠ 1889 J. H. Maiden Native Plants Austral. 400 Casuarina torulosa..called ‘Mountain-Oak’ in Queensland. 1900 Proc. Linn. Soc. New S. Wales 25 713 Another tree now appearing for the first time is Casuarina quadrivalvis (She Oak and Mountain Oak). 1926 Queensland Agric. Jrnl. 25 441 Lysicarpus ternifolius Tom Russell's Mahogany, Mountain Oak. 1936 J. E. Hammond Western Pioneers 86 During the early 'nineties he collected many kinds of West Australian woods..jam-wood, mountain oak, sandalwood. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1609 |
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