| 单词 | oak opening |
| 释义 | > as lemmasoak opening oak opening n. U.S. an area thinly wooded with oak trees; spec. (frequently in plural) a tract of land characterized by open stands of oak trees occurring naturally in prairie country, esp. in the upper Mississippi valley. ΚΠ 1830 J. M'Call in Wisconsin State Hist. Soc. Coll. (1892) XII. 185 From that up, on the right bank, it is oak openings. 1848 J. F. Cooper Oak Openings I. i. 10 The trees..were what is called the ‘burr oak’..; and the space between them, always irregular, and often of singular beauty, have obtained the name of ‘openings’; the two terms combined giving their appellation to this particular species of native forest, under the name of ‘Oak Openings’. 1924 Amer. Hist. Rev. 29 686 Its beautiful prairies and oak openings, constituting an island in a sea of forest that swept otherwise practically unbroken from the Cascades to the Pacific. 1970 Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.) 24 May 4/1 Trees and shrubs grew along the streams, on wooded knolls or ridges, and in occasional ‘oak openings’. < as lemmas |
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