单词 | oak thicket |
释义 | > as lemmasoak thicket a. With the sense ‘consisting of or characterized by oak trees’, as in oak forest, oak grove, oak thicket, etc. ΚΠ a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) viii. x. 9 Ane thyk ayk wod..Belappys all the said cuthill about. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Gen. xiii. D So Abram remoued his tent, and wente and dwelt in yeOkegroue of Mamre. a1638 J. Mede Wks. (1672) 65 The Quercetum, Oak-toft or Holt of Sichem. 1734 S.-Carolina Gaz. 22 June 3/2 300 Acres whereof are rich Savannah, and most of the rest Oak and Hickery Swamps, and no Pine Barren. 1767 Bartram's Jrnl. 56 in W. Stork Acct. E. Florida (ed. 2) Cypress-swamps and oak-hammocks alternately mixed with pine-land. 1814 W. Scott Waverley I. x. 127 Edward learned from her that the old hag..was simply a portion of oak copse which was to be felled that day. View more context for this quotation 1838 A. Jameson Winter Stud. & Summer Rambles Canada II. 139 Then succeeded some miles of open flat country, called the Oak Plains, and so called because covered with thickets and groups of oak. 1859 W. S. Coleman Our Woodlands 6 Covered with oak-forests. a1862 H. D. Thoreau in J. L. Shanley Making of Walden (1957) 186 Pine woods & oak-thickets. 1918 W. Cather My Ántonia Introd. p. ix The train flashed through never-ending miles of ripe wheat..and oak groves wilting in the sun. 1993 N.Y. Times 19 Oct. c1/4 The prairie and its attendant oak savannas have become the rarest of North America's major biomes. < as lemmas |
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