| 单词 | pencil cedar |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspencil cedar pencil cedar n. (a) any of several junipers, chiefly North American, esp. the eastern red cedar, Juniperus virginiana; (also) the wood of such a juniper, used esp. for making pencils; (b) (frequently with distinguishing word) any of various Australian trees resembling these junipers or yielding similar wood; the wood of such a tree. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > conifers > junipers > [noun] gorsec1000 savinOE juniper-treea1382 junipera1400 quickena1400 juniperinec1430 cade1575 jeniver1585 melmot1644 oxycedar1646 red cedar1682 cover-shame1694 Bermuda cedar1700 pencil cedar1785 sharp cedar1840 Rocky Mountain juniper1852 tuckamore1863 tucking-bush1890 1785 Daily Universal Reg. 1 Jan. 4/3 350 Logs and Planks Pencil Cedar. 1820 in Hist. Rec. Austral. (1921) 3rd Ser. III. 18 An inferior kind called pencil cedar is abundant and useful as a Common Wood. 1848 J. Syme Nine Yrs. Van Diemen's Land 60 The woods that are most esteemed for the fitting up of houses..are Huon pine, black and silver mimosa, pencil cedar, and sassafras. 1884 A. Nilson Timber Trees New S. Wales 53 D[ysoxylon] Muelleri.—Pencil Cedar..D. rufum.—Bastard Pencil Cedar. 1908 E. J. Banfield Confessions of Beachcomber i. v. 184 A huge log of pencil cedar had been cast among the boulders. 1965 Austral. Encycl. VII. 106/1 Glochidion Ferdinandii (variously known as white beech, pencil cedar, rain tree and ‘towwar’)..is a medium-sized, rain-forest tree. 1996 Chiltern Seeds Catal. 136 Pencil Cedar. Eastern Red Cedar. Very hardy erect Cedar, the wood from which is the best known for the casings of lead pencils. < as lemmas |
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