单词 | pine tree |
释义 | pine treen. = pine n.2 1a.In quot. 1788: = pine n.2 4a. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > conifers > [noun] > pines and allies pine treeeOE pineOE pine-nut treec1330 pineapplec1390 pineapple treea1398 mountain pine1597 pine1597 mountain pine1601 frankincense1611 rosin flower?1611 black pine1683 Scotch pine1706 yellow pine1709 Jersey pine1743 loblolly pine1760 mugoa1768 Scots pine1774 Scotch fir1777 arrow plant1779 scrub pine1791 Georgia pine1796 old field pine1797 tamarack1805 grey pine1810 pond pine1810 New Jersey pine1818 loblolly1819 Corsican pine1824 celery-top pine1827 toatoa1831 heavy-wooded pine1836 nut pine1845 celery pine1851 celery-topped pine1851 sugar-pine1853 western white pine1857 Jeffrey1858 Korean pine1858 lodge-pole pine1859 jack pine1863 whitebark pine1864 twisted pine1866 Monterey pine1868 tanekaha1875 chir1882 slash-pine1882 celery-leaved pine1883 knee-pine1884 knobcone pine1884 matsu1884 meadow pine1884 Alaska pine1890 limber pine1901 bristlecone pine1908 o-matsu1916 insignis1920 radiata1953 eOE Bald's Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) ii. xxiv. 216 Pintreowes þa grenan twigu ufeweard gegnid on þæt seleste win. OE Ælfric Gloss. (St. John's Oxf.) 312 Pinus, pintreow. ?a1200 (?OE) Peri Didaxeon (1896) 33 Nym þanne narð and pintreowes sæp. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1969) Isa. xliv. 14 He plauntide þe pyne tree [a1425 L.V. pyne apple tre; L. pinum] þat with reyn he nurshede. ?a1425 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. ii. met. v. 19 They..layen undir the schadwes of the heye pyn-trees. 1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) xvii. 390 He toke on his waye for to goo to the pintre of mountalban. 1532 (?a1400) Romaunt Rose 1464 (MED) Nature set..Under that pyn-tree a welle. 1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 87 The Pyne tre bryngeth furth very litle rosin. 1651 R. Child Large Let. in S. Hartlib Legacie 63 The Countrey aboundeth much with Firs, and Pine-trees. 1710 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) VI. 669 The bill for preserving white pyne trees in our plantations for ships masts. 1788 in Hist. Rec. Austral. (1914) 1st Ser. I. 21 The pine-trees [on Norfolk Island] rise fifty and sixty feet before they shoot out any branches. 1837 W. Irving Adventures Capt. Bonneville II. 168 Barricaded by fallen pine-trees and tremendous precipices. 1887 A. Conan Doyle in Beeton's Christmas Ann. 60 The keen air of the mountains and the balsamic odour of the pine trees took the place of nurse and mother to the young girl. 1928 Amer. Mercury Oct. 129/1 Paul Bunyan, that mighty boss-logger who combed his beard with a young pine tree. 1954 M. Stewart Madam, will you Talk? xxvi. 196 I had to push myself away from the solid comfort of the pine-tree's bole. 1995 Times 27 Mar. 20/2 The Scots pine is the only native British pine tree. Compounds C1. ΚΠ 1849 A. H. Clough in Poems & Prose Remains (1869) II. 35 The pine-tree boles are dimmer, And the stars bedimmed above. pine tree branch n. ΚΠ 1850 G. Law tr. J. B. Boussingault Rural Econ. 53 (table) Pine-tree branches without leaves. 1938 M. E. Opler Myths & Tales of Jicarilla Apache Indians (1994) vi. 292 He looked for Turkey... He trailed him to a pine tree branch. 1969 M. Richler Street 53 Brushes fashioned of pine tree branches. pine tree leaf n. ΚΠ c1450 Treat. Fishing in J. McDonald et al. Origins of Angling (1963) 173 (MED) In may, take..a bayt þat bredyth on a pyne tre lefe. 1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole iii. 600 Leaves..nothing so long or hard or sharpe pointed as the Pine tree leaves. 1703 tr. M. Ettmüller Etmullerus Abridg'd (ed. 2) xvi. iii. 300 Scorbutical Tooth-aches are cur'd by applying the Decoction of Pine-tree Leaves with Spirit of Scurvy-grass. 1989 Jrnl. Applied Ecol. 26 684 This equation produced unbiased estimated of lodgepole pine tree leaf areas. pine tree nut n. ΚΠ OE tr. Pseudo-Apuleius Herbarium (Hatton) (O.E.D. transcript) (1984) cxxxiv. 174 Genim þysse wyrte feower penega gewihte sædes & cyrnlu of pintrywenum hnutum.] 1637 T. Heywood Pleasant Dialogues & Dramma's 228 The Pine-tree Nut thou canst not break with blows, But a soft fire, the shels wide open throws. 1890 Bismarck (N. Dakota) Daily Tribune 24 Aug. 4/1 Pine tree nuts are also gathered in great quantities. 1987 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 13 Dec. vii. 14/1 For dessert there was a tart made of pine tree nuts—sweet, with a slight aftertaste of pine. pine tree wood n. ΚΠ 1578 W. Hunnis Hyue Full of Hunnye vi. 11 But thou of Pinetree wood shalt frame an Arke well clos'de about, And Chambers let bee made therein, wel pitcht within and out. 1738 S.-Carolina Gaz. 19 Oct. 3/1 You'll find Assortment of well-chosen Goods Fit in the City, or the Pine Tree Woods. 1958 Daily Independent (Monessen, Pa.) 1 Apr. 4/7 It [sc. sumi] is pine tree wood, burned to charcoal, mixed with glue binder. 2001 Columbus Dispatch (Ohio) (Nexis) 13 Dec. 11 The boys venture from the fields near their house into the pine-tree woods. C2. pine tree coinage n. now historical = pine tree money n. ΚΠ 1849 Merchants' Mag. 20 200 The device of a pine tree upon one side of the shilling has given to the entire series the general designation of ‘the pine tree coinage.’ 1894 Newark (Ohio) Sunday Advocate 30 Sept. 4/3 On Oct. 19 of the same year [sc. 1652] provision was made for the famous ‘Pine Tree Coinage’. 1993 Foundry Managem. & Technol. (Nexis) Oct. 22 When Governor John Endicott began the Oak Tree and Pine Tree coinage in 1652, the dies were made at the iron works. pine tree flag n. a flag bearing the figure of a pine tree, esp. one carried into battle during the American revolutionary war, or used as an early American naval ensign. ΚΠ 1852 S. Hamilton Hist. National Flag U.S.A. 112 The pine-tree flag of New England was a blue field, containing in the upper canton, next to the staff, a St. George's cross on a white ground. 1896 Peterson's Mag. 6 288/2 These vessels all sailed under the pine-tree flag. This flag was of white bunting, on which was painted a green pine-tree, and upon the reverse..: ‘Appeal to Heaven’. 1933 Nashua (Iowa) Reporter 7 June 2/6 The pine tree flag of early Revolutionary war days. 2002 Newsday (N.Y.) (Nexis) 16 Aug. a6 I was pretty sure there were no existing pine tree flags. pine-tree lappet n. (more fully pine-tree lappet moth) a large brown moth of continental Eurasia, Dendrolimus pini (family Lasiocampidae), whose caterpillar can be a pest of pine and spruce trees. ΚΠ c1760 Wilkes' Eng. Moths & Butterflies i. i. 29 The Wild Pine-tree Lappit-moth. 1907 R. South Moths Brit. Isles 1st Ser. 106 This is..the ‘Wild Pine tree Lappet Moth’ and ‘Pine Tree Lappet’ of the more ancient authors. 1991 B. Goater in A. M. Emmet & J. Heath Moths & Butterflies Great Brit. & Ireland VII. ii. 319/2 Dendrolimus pini (Linnaeus). The Pine-tree Lappet... A male of this handsome and variable species was taken in Norwich in 1809. pine tree money n. now historical silver coins (shilling, sixpence, and threepence) bearing the figure of a pine tree, struck in Massachusetts in the latter half of the 17th cent., being the first money coined in a British colony. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > foreign coins > [noun] > North American coins > U.S. quarter dollar1615 bit1683 quarter1776 cent1782 dollar1785 dime1786 eagle1786 half-dollar1786 half-eagle1786 sharpshin1804 picayune1805 caser1825 pic1839 double eagle1849 slug1851 hog1859 pine tree money1859 martin bita1884 meter1940 1859 B. J. Lossing Hist. U.S. 122 These coins, now very rare, are called pine-tree money. 1886 Newark (Ohio) Daily Advocate 9 Jan. October 10, 1652 just 233 years ago, the Pine Tree money was coined. 1937 New Eng. Q. 10 680 This ‘pine tree’ money was the last variety of coinage produced by Hull and Sanderson. ΚΠ 1893 E. Custer Tenting on Plains 88 The most venomous of snakes, called the pine-tree rattlesnake. pine tree shilling n. now historical a shilling coin bearing the figure of a pine tree, struck in Massachusetts in the latter half of the 17th cent. (see pine tree money n.). ΚΠ 1837 N. Hawthorne Twice-told Tales 216 An immense quantity of pine-tree shillings, which were the earliest silver coinage of Massachusetts. 1893 G. Smith United States 28 She [sc. Massachusetts] coined her own money, the pine-tree shilling. 1982 S. B. Flexner Listening to Amer. 183 The first coins made in North America were silver pine tree shillings, also called Boston shillings and Bay shillings. Pine Tree State n. the state of Maine, which has extensive pine forests. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > America > North America > [noun] > United States > specific states > Maine Pine Tree State1856 1856 N.-Y. Daily Times 25 July 3/2 Forest and Shade, containing several highly interesting ‘Legends of the Pine-Tree State’, by Charles P. Isley, is an agreeable book. 1902 Portsmouth (New Hampsh.) Herald 28 Aug. 1/7 (heading) The President in Maine. Enthusiastically received by citizens of Pine Tree State. 1990 Yankee Mar. 15/3 For decades the Granite State and the Pine Tree State have been feuding over border liquor prices..and especially taxes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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