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单词 beam-tree
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beam-treen.

Etymology: Improper shortening of white-beam (tree), so called from the white under-surface of its leaves, which strikingly characterize it in a wind.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈbeam-tree.
A tree ( Pyrus aria) related to the Apple, Pear, and Wild Service, bearing flat corymbs of flowers, succeeded by rich scarlet berries.
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whitebeam1633
whip-beam1733
beam-tree1800
hoar withy1879
service-berry1890
1800 J. E. Smith Eng. Flora (1828) II. 366 Pyrus Aria, White Beam-tree, White Wild Pear-tree.
1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 84 The timber of the Beam-tree is invaluable for axletrees.
1879 R. C. A. Prior On Pop. Names Brit. Plants (ed. 3) 16 Without the White prefixed..Beam-tree is a silly pleonasm, a tree-tree.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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