pagoda treen.

Brit.

/pəˈɡəʊdə ˌtriː/, U.S.

/pəˈɡoʊdə ˌtri/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: pagoda n., tree n.

Etymology: < pagoda n. + tree n. Compare Dutch pagodeboom (1726 or earlier: see quot. below), German Pagodenbaum (1792 in the passage translated in quot. 1799 at sense 1a).With sense 1 compare the following:1726 R. Van Goen in F. Valentyn Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën VII. vii. xv. 209/2 Van hunnen Godsdienst valt weinig te zeggen, dan dat zy, als de Cingalezen, de hoge Boomen, Bogas, en van de onze Pagood-Boomen genaamd, met een steenen voet rondom opzetten, en daar Lampen voor opsteeken, zonder dat daar oit eenige Beelden, of andre Ceremonien, gezien werden.

1. Any of several trees associated with or planted near pagodas.

a. The banyan tree, Ficus benghalensis. Now rare.

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Indian fig1382

Indian fig tree1594

banian-tree1638

war1687

peepul tree1783

burr1813

Brahminy fig tree1814

bo tree1820

bodhi tree1838

pagoda tree1876

waringin1889

1799 W. Wennington tr. A. H. J. Lafontaine Man of Nature xxxviii. 350 One evening, during the cool, was Fanny reclined in slumber beneath a pagoda tree [Ger. Pagodenbaum].

1876 Rep. Commissioners U.S. Internat. Exhib. Vienna 78 The Ficus bengalensis, the banyan or pagoda tree, has a large multiplex stem, formed of the adventitious roots united together, and enlarging the trunk.

1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants 101/1 Pagoda-tree, E. Indian, Ficus indica.

1956 Dict. Gardening (Royal Hort. Soc.) (ed. 2) II. 820/1 Ficus indica. Pagoda Tree... Similar to the banyan..but without aerial roots.

b. The frangipani Plumeria rubra (and its white-flowered form, forma acutifolia), much planted in India, esp. near temples or graves, where the fragrant white or pink-tinged flowers are used as offerings.

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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > Asian trees or shrubs > [noun] > pagoda-tree or flower

pagoda flower1837

pagoda tree1874

pagoda tree1884

1874 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. (rev. ed.) 836/1 Pagoda tree, Plumieria aduncum.

1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants 101/1 Pagoda-tree,..W. Indian, Plumeria alba.

1946 A. P. Benthall Trees of Calcutta 304 Plumeria rubra Linn. forma acutifolia..pagoda tree, jasmine tree, frangipani... Hindus make much use of the flowers in worship.

1999 M. Cezair-Thompson True Hist. Paradise xxxiii. 179 ‘Plumeria acutifolia,’ the label said. ‘Frangipani, Pagoda Tree, Temple Tree.’ She was in the garden at Bonnieview, planting a rare white frangipani.

c. More fully Japanese (also Chinese) pagoda tree. A tree, Sophora japonica (family Fabaceae ( Leguminosae)), with fragrant creamy-white flowers, native to China and Korea and often grown in Japan and the West as an ornamental.

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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > Asian trees or shrubs > [noun] > pagoda-tree or flower

pagoda flower1837

pagoda tree1874

pagoda tree1884

1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants 101/1 Pagoda-tree, Chinese or Japanese. Sophora japonica.

1900 W. Robinson Eng. Flower Garden (ed. 8) 819/1 S[ophora]japonica (Pagoda Tree).—One of the finest of flowering trees, elegant in foliage, and, in September, covered with clusters of white bloom.

1934 Geogr. Jrnl. 84 25 Streams..ran through each of the eighty gardens,..flowing in quiet brooks among the orchards and between the great pagoda trees.

2001 Home May 80/2 Trees with graceful, cascading forms like Japanese pagoda tree (Sophora japonica)..are living sculptures, with and without leaves.

2. A mythical tree said to produce pagodas or gold coins (pagoda n. 3); (hence) a source of wealth. Esp. in to shake the pagoda-tree: (esp. during the 18th and early 19th centuries) to make a fortune rapidly in India.

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the mind > possession > wealth > be rich [verb (intransitive)] > become rich

gather?c1225

richa1375

purchasec1387

increasea1425

enrich1525

to feather one's nest1583

to make a, one's fortune1596

to make one's fortunea1616

fatten1638

accumulate1747

to fill one's pipe1821

to shake the pagoda-tree1825

pyramid1926

1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. I. 74 Those olden times, in which the shaking of the pagoda-tree was an operation more generally performed..than in these modern days of moderation.

1862 G. A. Sala Seven Sons Mammon I. vii. 156 How could you coerce a man who had sat under the pagoda-tree until a golden apple had dropped on his nose, and imbued him with directorial gravity?

1870 Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 40 31 It is well known that no more productive ‘pagoda tree’ ever existed in China than the Yellow River.

1940 Econ. Hist. Rev. 10 141 From 1753 onwards.., the years of shaking the golden ‘pagoda-tree’ in Bengal and Madras, more and more Dutch capital poured into English East India stock.

1958 K. Glamann Dutch–Asiatic Trade 1620–1740 in Jrnl. Asian Stud. (1959) 18 381/2 A nearly historyless, evergreen pagoda-tree, whose golden fruits the Court of Directors had a monopoly of shaking into its turban at suitable intervals.

1995 Times (Nexis) 23 Sept. Having survived the enormous expatriate mortality of life in India in the 18th and early 19th centuries, they retired to England, having successfully ‘shaken the pagoda tree’ (ie, made their pile).

a. Botany. Any of various tropical trees, esp. of the family Bombacaceae or the genus Terminalia (family Combretaceae), which have a tiered arrangement of branches.

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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

1940 E. J. H. Corner Wayside Trees Malaya I. i. 30 Our photographs of the Ketapang.., Pulai..and Kapok..show an open-crowned tree of formal aspect, with the limbs set in tiers on the straight trunk rather like the eaves of a pagoda: from this resemblance, we have named them pagoda-trees.

1978 F. Hallé et al. Trop. Trees & Forests iii. 75/1 A similar symmetrical architecture is common in many ‘pagoda trees’ of the tropics (e.g., Terminalia catappa).

1997 D. J. Mabberley Plant-bk. (ed. 2) 27 Alstonia R. Br. Apocynaceae... Pagoda trees with whorled lvs [= leaves].

b. The pagoda dogwood, Cornus alternifolia, of North America. rare.

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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > cornus (dogwood and allies) > [noun]

gaiterc1000

dog-tree1548

cornel1551

dogberry1551

prick tree1551

hound's-berry1578

hound's-tree1578

prick-timber tree1578

dwarf honeysuckle1597

dogwood1598

sanguine-rod1601

prickwood1691

bloody twig1759

rose willow1798

red osier1807

swamp dogwood1817

stone-berry?1838

bunch-berry1845

cornus1846

silky cornel1848

silky dogwood1900

pagoda tree1978

1978 A. J. Huxley Plant & Planet (rev. ed.) vii. 74 Cornus controversa is called the Wedding-cake Tree because of its tiered arrangement; C. alternifolia the Pagoda Tree.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	pagoda tree
释义	pagoda treen. Brit. /pəˈɡəʊdə ˌtriː/, U.S. /pəˈɡoʊdə ˌtri/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: pagoda n., tree n. Etymology: < pagoda n. + tree n. Compare Dutch pagodeboom (1726 or earlier: see quot. below), German Pagodenbaum (1792 in the passage translated in quot. 1799 at sense 1a).With sense 1 compare the following:1726 R. Van Goen in F. Valentyn Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën VII. vii. xv. 209/2 Van hunnen Godsdienst valt weinig te zeggen, dan dat zy, als de Cingalezen, de hoge Boomen, Bogas, en van de onze Pagood-Boomen genaamd, met een steenen voet rondom opzetten, en daar Lampen voor opsteeken, zonder dat daar oit eenige Beelden, of andre Ceremonien, gezien werden. 1. Any of several trees associated with or planted near pagodas. a. The banyan tree, Ficus benghalensis. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > Asian trees or shrubs > [noun] > banyan tree Indian fig1382 Indian fig tree1594 banian-tree1638 war1687 peepul tree1783 burr1813 Brahminy fig tree1814 bo tree1820 bodhi tree1838 pagoda tree1876 waringin1889 1799 W. Wennington tr. A. H. J. Lafontaine Man of Nature xxxviii. 350 One evening, during the cool, was Fanny reclined in slumber beneath a pagoda tree [Ger. Pagodenbaum]. 1876 Rep. Commissioners U.S. Internat. Exhib. Vienna 78 The Ficus bengalensis, the banyan or pagoda tree, has a large multiplex stem, formed of the adventitious roots united together, and enlarging the trunk. 1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants 101/1 Pagoda-tree, E. Indian, Ficus indica. 1956 Dict. Gardening (Royal Hort. Soc.) (ed. 2) II. 820/1 Ficus indica. Pagoda Tree... Similar to the banyan..but without aerial roots. b. The frangipani Plumeria rubra (and its white-flowered form, forma acutifolia), much planted in India, esp. near temples or graves, where the fragrant white or pink-tinged flowers are used as offerings. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > Asian trees or shrubs > [noun] > pagoda-tree or flower pagoda flower1837 pagoda tree1874 pagoda tree1884 1874 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. (rev. ed.) 836/1 Pagoda tree, Plumieria aduncum. 1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants 101/1 Pagoda-tree,..W. Indian, Plumeria alba. 1946 A. P. Benthall Trees of Calcutta 304 Plumeria rubra Linn. forma acutifolia..pagoda tree, jasmine tree, frangipani... Hindus make much use of the flowers in worship. 1999 M. Cezair-Thompson True Hist. Paradise xxxiii. 179 ‘Plumeria acutifolia,’ the label said. ‘Frangipani, Pagoda Tree, Temple Tree.’ She was in the garden at Bonnieview, planting a rare white frangipani. c. More fully Japanese (also Chinese) pagoda tree. A tree, Sophora japonica (family Fabaceae ( Leguminosae)), with fragrant creamy-white flowers, native to China and Korea and often grown in Japan and the West as an ornamental. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > Asian trees or shrubs > [noun] > pagoda-tree or flower pagoda flower1837 pagoda tree1874 pagoda tree1884 1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants 101/1 Pagoda-tree, Chinese or Japanese. Sophora japonica. 1900 W. Robinson Eng. Flower Garden (ed. 8) 819/1 S[ophora]japonica (Pagoda Tree).—One of the finest of flowering trees, elegant in foliage, and, in September, covered with clusters of white bloom. 1934 Geogr. Jrnl. 84 25 Streams..ran through each of the eighty gardens,..flowing in quiet brooks among the orchards and between the great pagoda trees. 2001 Home May 80/2 Trees with graceful, cascading forms like Japanese pagoda tree (Sophora japonica)..are living sculptures, with and without leaves. 2. A mythical tree said to produce pagodas or gold coins (pagoda n. 3); (hence) a source of wealth. Esp. in to shake the pagoda-tree: (esp. during the 18th and early 19th centuries) to make a fortune rapidly in India. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > wealth > be rich [verb (intransitive)] > become rich gather?c1225 richa1375 purchasec1387 increasea1425 enrich1525 to feather one's nest1583 to make a, one's fortune1596 to make one's fortunea1616 fatten1638 accumulate1747 to fill one's pipe1821 to shake the pagoda-tree1825 pyramid1926 1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. I. 74 Those olden times, in which the shaking of the pagoda-tree was an operation more generally performed..than in these modern days of moderation. 1862 G. A. Sala Seven Sons Mammon I. vii. 156 How could you coerce a man who had sat under the pagoda-tree until a golden apple had dropped on his nose, and imbued him with directorial gravity? 1870 Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 40 31 It is well known that no more productive ‘pagoda tree’ ever existed in China than the Yellow River. 1940 Econ. Hist. Rev. 10 141 From 1753 onwards.., the years of shaking the golden ‘pagoda-tree’ in Bengal and Madras, more and more Dutch capital poured into English East India stock. 1958 K. Glamann Dutch–Asiatic Trade 1620–1740 in Jrnl. Asian Stud. (1959) 18 381/2 A nearly historyless, evergreen pagoda-tree, whose golden fruits the Court of Directors had a monopoly of shaking into its turban at suitable intervals. 1995 Times (Nexis) 23 Sept. Having survived the enormous expatriate mortality of life in India in the 18th and early 19th centuries, they retired to England, having successfully ‘shaken the pagoda tree’ (ie, made their pile). 3. a. Botany. Any of various tropical trees, esp. of the family Bombacaceae or the genus Terminalia (family Combretaceae), which have a tiered arrangement of branches. ΘΚΠ 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 1940 E. J. H. Corner Wayside Trees Malaya I. i. 30 Our photographs of the Ketapang.., Pulai..and Kapok..show an open-crowned tree of formal aspect, with the limbs set in tiers on the straight trunk rather like the eaves of a pagoda: from this resemblance, we have named them pagoda-trees. 1978 F. Hallé et al. Trop. Trees & Forests iii. 75/1 A similar symmetrical architecture is common in many ‘pagoda trees’ of the tropics (e.g., Terminalia catappa). 1997 D. J. Mabberley Plant-bk. (ed. 2) 27 Alstonia R. Br. Apocynaceae... Pagoda trees with whorled lvs [= leaves]. b. The pagoda dogwood, Cornus alternifolia, of North America. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > cornus (dogwood and allies) > [noun] gaiterc1000 dog-tree1548 cornel1551 dogberry1551 prick tree1551 hound's-berry1578 hound's-tree1578 prick-timber tree1578 dwarf honeysuckle1597 dogwood1598 sanguine-rod1601 prickwood1691 bloody twig1759 rose willow1798 red osier1807 swamp dogwood1817 stone-berry?1838 bunch-berry1845 cornus1846 silky cornel1848 silky dogwood1900 pagoda tree1978 1978 A. J. Huxley Plant & Planet (rev. ed.) vii. 74 Cornus controversa is called the Wedding-cake Tree because of its tiered arrangement; C. alternifolia the Pagoda Tree. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1799
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