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单词 pepperwood tree
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pepperwood tree
2. More fully pepperwood tree. Any of various trees with spicy or pungently aromatic wood, bark, or leaves, esp. (a) any of the lauraceous trees Umbellularia californica of California, Cinnamomum laubatii of Queensland, and Dicypellium caryophyllaceum and Licaria guianensis of tropical America; (b) U.S. either of the prickly ashes, Zanthoxylum clava-herculis and Z. americanum (family Rutaceae); (c) New Zealand the horopito, Pseudowintera axillaris (family Winteraceae).
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1858 C. E. De Lone Jrnl. 5 Mar. in Calif. Hist. Soc. Q. (1930) 9 253 Noticed the beautie's of the peper [sic] wood tree.
1883 E. Ingersoll in Harper's Mag. Jan. 199 Pepper-woods, whose leaves..tingle upon the tongue like curry.
1908 J. E. Rogers Tree Bk. 348 ‘Sting-tongue’ and ‘pepperwood’ he calls it [sc. prickly ash bark], for it produces a burning sensation and a copious flow of saliva.
1923 N.Z. Jrnl. Sci. & Technol. 5 151 The horopito or pepperwood..is a member of the Magnoliaceae, being a sister plant to the South American Drimys winteri.
1947 W. A. Chalfant Gold, Guns, & Ghost Towns 25 It was a small flat-topped point..with a few nice trees standing together, among them a beautiful pepperwood—spice wood, we called it.
1965 Austral. Encycl. II. 386/1 C[innamomum] laubatii (pepperwood) is a North Queensland species.
1989 Encycl. Brit. XII. 895/2 Another well-known cultivated species [of Zanthoxylum] is Z. clava-herculis, variously called the Hercules'-club, the sea-ash, or the pepperwood.
2000 Dominion (Wellington) (Nexis) 23 Oct. 11 In one place, exceptionally thick pepperwood had grown over the fence.
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