| 单词 | native oak |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnative oak b. Originally and chiefly Australian. Any of certain Australian trees resembling an English oak esp. in the appearance of their wood; spec. (more fully native oak) = casuarina n. Also: the wood of such a tree.Frequently with modifying word denoting a particular kind of casuarina or other oak-like tree.bull, desert, river, silky, Tasmanian oak, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > Australasian trees > [noun] > Australian or New Zealand oak oak1789 she-oak1792 river oak1817 shingle-oak1818 New Zealand oak1835 swamp-oak1837 he-oak1844 river she-oak1872 forest-oak1882 bull oak1884 desert oak1896 1789 [implied in: J. Hunter Hist. Jrnl. Trans. Port Jackson (1793) 357 Pines, and oak-trees of the largest size were blown down every instant. (at oak tree n. b)]. 1802 J. Fleming in Hist. Rec. Port Phillip (1879) 22 The land is..thin of timber, consisting of gum, oak, Banksia, and thorn. 1831 G. A. Robinson Jrnl. 23 July in N. J. B. Plomley Friendly Mission (1966) 386 The native oak (sheoak). 1838 T. L. Mitchell Three Exped. (1839) I. 38 The dense, umbrageous foliage of the casuarina, or ‘river-oak’ of the colonists. 1841 Sydney Herald 26 Apr. 2/2 Dry native oak is the best wood for heating ovens. 1862 H. Kendall Poems & Songs 56 The wail in the native oak. 1892 A. Sutherland Elem. Geogr. Brit. Colonies 27 A peculiar class of trees, called..Casuarina, is popularly known as oaks, ‘swamp-oaks’, ‘forest-oaks’, ‘she-oaks’, and so forth, although the trees are not the least like oaks. 1935 F. D. Davison & B. Nicholls Blue Coast Caravan 52 The only forest trees remaining were native oaks—she-oak or bull oak—growing in the numerous small swamps. 1965 Austral. Encycl. VI. 381 The word ‘oak’ is usually applied in Australia to various members of the genus Casuarina..because the grain of their timbers resembles that of the English oak, having large conspicuous medullary rays. 1971 J. H. Titmuss Commerc. Timbers of World (ed. 4) 220 Oak, Tasmanian. A timber closely related to Jarrah... Consignments are made up from three species of Eucalyptus (Eucalyptus obliqua, Eucalyptus gigantea, and Eucalyptus regnans). < as lemmas |
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