单词 | pencil pine |
释义 | > as lemmaspencil pine pencil pine n. a tall, slender, long-lived coniferous tree, Athrotaxis cupressoides (family Taxodiaceae), native to high elevations in Tasmania, which has scale-like or lanceolate leaves adpressed to the branchlets and yields wood used for cabinet work. ΚΠ 1846 N. L. Kentish Work in Bush Van Diemen's Land 22 The Celery-topped Pine is met with in the ranges of the upper part of the River Forth. [Note] This wood, also called the ‘Pencil Pine’, is a handsome specimen of the Fir species. 1891 J. Fenton Bush Life Tasmania (1964) 168 He also discovered at that period the beautiful pencil pine which grows in the southern and still unsettled parts of the district. 1999 J. Leigh Hunter (2000) 56 A small stand of thousand-year-old pencil pines, of a rich sombre green befitting their age, huddle by the shore. < as lemmas |
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