| 单词 | oil-nut tree |
| 释义 | > as lemmasoil-nut tree 1. More fully oil-nut tree. Any of various trees or shrubs that produce oil-rich nuts or large seeds; spec. (a) the castor oil plant, Ricinus communis; (b) the butternut, Juglans cinerea; (c) the buffalo-nut, Pyrularia pubera; (d) the oil palm, Elaeis guineensis. 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] > name applied to various plants or nuts oil-nut1694 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > edible nuts or nut-trees > [noun] > walnut > walnut-tree > types of > butter-nut or white walnut white walnut1624 butternut1670 oil-nut1694 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plant, nut, or bean yielding oil > [noun] > trees or shrubs yielding oil > North American > buffalo-nut or tree buffalo-nut1857 oil-nut1884 1694 Town Rec. Topsfield, Mass. (1917) I. 86/2 From thence on a straight line to an oylenut tree which is Isaac Burtons tree marked. 1707 H. Sloane Voy. Islands I. 126 The Oil-Nut-Tree..seems not to be different from the European Ricinus. 1778 J. Carver Trav. N.-Amer. 500 The Butter or Oilnut... The tree grows in meadows, where the soil is rich and warm. 1813 H. Muhlenberg Catal. Plantarum Americæ Septentrionalis 96 Oil nut, (Pyrularia or Hamiltonia oleifera). 1832 D. J. Browne Sylva Americana 173 In Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont, it [sc. the butternut] bears the name of Oil Nut. 1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants Pyrularia oleifera, Buffalo-nut, Elk-nut, or Oil-nut, of N. America. 1912 E. T. Seton Forester's Man. 41 White Walnut, Oil Nut, or Butternut (Juglans cinerea). 1938 H. J. Quayle Insects of Citrus iii. 175 The food plants [of a scale-insect] include asparagus fern, Chinese oil nut, aleurites, camellia, [etc.]. 1968 Amer. Midland Naturalist 79 325 Other species in this area included..buffalonut or oilnut shrubs (Pyrularia pubera). 1994 B. Chevannes Rastafari i. 27 The oil-nut tree is commonly believed to bleed red if its bark is bruised on Good Friday. < as lemmas |
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