单词 | oil tree |
释义 | oil treen. Now rare. Any of various trees and large shrubs having fruits or seeds that yield an oil; spec. †(a) an oleaster or olive tree (obsolete); (b) the castor oil plant, Ricinus communis; (c) the African oil palm Elaeis guineensis; (d) a tung tree ( Aleurites species). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > [noun] > castor-oil plant or bean ricinusOE oil treea1425 Palma Christic1450 man's motherworta1500 tick-seed1562 tick-weed1563 finger orchis1597 kick1597 steadfast1597 palmchrist1611 oil-nut1694 oilseed1760 castor-oil bean1814 castor-bean1819 castor-oil plant1839 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plant, nut, or bean yielding oil > [noun] > trees or shrubs yielding oil oil treea1425 the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > spurges and allies > [noun] physic nut1657 milk-bush1696 milk-tree1698 poison-bush1740 jatropha1754 milky-hedge1773 milk hedge1780 chandelier plant1827 Jew bush1830 candelabrum1834 poinsettia1836 slipper-plant1848 coquillo1851 zebra poison1871 oil tree1879 picture-tree1885 slipper spurs1887 monkey fiddle1913 milk plant1965 stringwood- a1425 Medulla Gram. (Stonyhurst) f. 45v Oleaster, oyle tree. 1611 Bible (King James) Isa. xli. 19 I will plant in the wildernes the Cedar, the Shittah tree, and the Myrtle, and the Oyle tree [ Coverdale olyues] . View more context for this quotation ?1614 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses v. 85 Thus to the woods he hasted..Where two twin vnder-woods, he enterd on; With Oliue trees, and oile-trees ouergrowne. 1725 H. Sloane Voy. Islands II. 113 (heading) The Palm Oil-Tree. 1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 321 Oil-tree, Ricinus. 1859 Littell's Living Age 9 Apr. 109/1 The oil tree (Elœis guineensis) is most prevalent on the west coast of Africa. 1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Oil-tree,..an Indian tree of the genus Bassia. 1879 H. N. Moseley Notes by Naturalist on ‘Challenger’ ii. 57 A very thick growth of oil-trees (Jatropha curcas). 1881 Spons' Encycl. Manuf. IV. 1411 Tung-, Tree-, or Wood-oil..is a product of the so-called ‘oil-tree’ of China, Cochin China, and Japan. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1425 |
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