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单词 oak tree
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oak treen.

Brit. /ˈəʊk ˌtriː/, U.S. /ˈoʊk ˌtri/
Forms: see oak n. and tree n.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: oak n., tree n.
Etymology: < oak n. + tree n.
a. Any tree of the genus Quercus; = oak n. 1a.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > [noun] > oak as timber tree
oakeOE
oak treeOE
mountain oak1609
white oak1610
Spanish oak1716
iron oak1724
post oak1775
Slavonian1809
the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > oak and allies > [noun] > oak-tree
oakeOE
oak treeOE
green oak1660
OE Wife's Lament 28 Heht mec mon wunian on wuda bearwe, under actreo in þam eorðscræfe.
?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 175b/b (MED) Medicinez conforting þat bene competent in þe ende ar after fomentacioun with wyne salted of decoccioun of rose, of absinthij, of white mosse of oke treez.
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 363 Oke tre, Quercus, ylex.
1462 Extracts Rec. in W. Chambers Charters Burgh Peebles (1872) 148 The sayd Die Bulle sale gef a aktre tyll be a Summer tyl the kyll.
a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) 69 iv. viii. 69 The ancyant aik tre, With hys byg schank.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 249/1 Oke tree, chesne.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Isa. i. D Ashamed of the oketrees wherein ye haue so delited.
1609 J. Skene tr. Forest Laws in Regiam Majestatem c. 12. 12 Gif the forestar finds anie man..heueand dune ane aik trie.
1623 in J. Stuart Extracts Presbytery Bk. Strathbogie (1843) 12 His bairn..being stif as an aik tree, and unable to move.
1679 Connecticut Rec. III. 27 We began [the line]..at an oak tree by the River side.
1703 T. Baker Tunbridge-walks 41 These Kentish-Folks, value themselves so much upon their Strength, and because they carry'd a few Boughs against William the Conquerour; they talk of bearing Oak-Trees.
1767 Bartram's Jrnl. 5 in W. Stork Acct. E. Florida (ed. 2) Many live oak-trees grew upon it.
1791 Philos. Trans. 1790 (Royal Soc.) 80 293 Soon afterwards the lightening struck an oak tree.
1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 112 The oak tree gnarl'd and notch'd.
1841 T. Carlyle in R. W. Emerson Ess. 1st Ser. (London ed.) Pref. p. xiii The smallest living acorn is fit to be the parent of oaktrees without end.
1948 E. N. Wentworth America's Sheep Trails ix. 154/2 The first road in the county was blazed by dragging the top of an oaktree twelve miles, southwestward from Spring Prairie to Delavan.
1971 Black Scholar Apr. 47/2 Our job is to clear out 10 miles of oak trees, manzanita shrubs and sagebrush on both sides of the highway.
2001 Two Worlds Apr. 23/1 Oak trees were once used to mark village boundaries.
b. Chiefly Australian. Any of various other trees resembling oaks or providing timber resembling oak (cf. oak n. 5); esp. a casuarina tree (cf. oak n. 5b).
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > [noun] > casuarinas
club-wood1777
oak tree1789
toa1792
casuarina1806
tree horsetail1884
the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > other non-British trees or shrubs > [noun]
andrachne1601
genip1666
allspice1686
allspice tree1691
Morinda1754
garcinia1760
pea tree1766
canarium1776
Pemphis1777
oak tree1789
buddleia1791
ixora1816
Canary wood1820
persea1823
naio1826
plume nutmeg1846
partridge pea1852
Leichhardt-tree1860
hardwood1864
scrubwood1874
tree lily1891
pagoda tree1940
schefflera1954
1789 J. Hunter Hist. Jrnl. Trans. Port Jackson (1793) 357 Pines, and oak-trees of the largest size were blown down every instant.
1829 R. Mude Picture of Austral. 136 To the casuarina, though it has no resemblance whatever to any species of oak, the colonists give the name of oak tree.
1875 T. Laslett Timber & Timber Trees xxiii. 145 The African Oak tree, the African Teak, or Mahogany timber of commerce..is probably the Swietenia Senegalensis.
1969 Ecology 50 329/1 This site was under a small black oak tree (Casuarina cristata) which was about 3 m high.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.
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1883 D. B. W. Sladen Austral. Lyrics 40 I have watched the merry dormice at play By their holes in oaktree roots.
1888 R. L. Stevenson Black Arrow iii. iv. 172 The heart misgave her in her oak-tree ribs [sc. of a ship].
1912 Man 12 16 The evidence, too, that Thor was the oak-tree-god is very slender.
C2.
oak-tree clay n. Obsolete either of two clay deposits of southern England: (a) = Kimmeridge clay n. at Kimmeridge n.; (b) = weald clay n. at weald n. Compounds.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > clay > [noun] > other clays
red clayc1475
urry1669
blae1724
cat-dirt1747
iron clay1750
till1762
mulatto clay1788
oak-tree clay1794
porcelain jasper1794
porcellanite1794
Karoo ground1836
plinthite1836
papa1851
Bradford clay1858
Indianaite1868
sinopite1868
hydrobiotite1881
pampas-clay1885
byon1892
potato clay1896
bentonite1898
quick clay1901
gumbotil1916
1794 T. Davis Gen. View Agric. Wilts. 63 There are three kinds of land, on which chalk is used with success in the district... 3dly. On the strong, oak-tree clay, or rather loam, in the valley at Mere, Sedgehill, and Semley.
1816 W. Smith Strata Identified 11 The Oak-tree Clay also may be mistaken or confounded with the Brick earth, which in several parts produces good oak.
1830 J. Baxter Libr. Agric. & Hort. Knowl. 70 The Sussex oaks are famed for many excellent qualities. They grow in a soil which, from their abundance and superior growth in the same, is called oak-tree clay.
1845 Encycl. Metrop. VI. 631/1 Mr Smith and other Geologists at one time referred the interior sandstones to the ‘iron sand’, and the Weald clay to one of two beds, confused under the title of oak-tree clays.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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