| 单词 | pine-barrens |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspine-barrens 3. A tract of barren land; spec. applied in North America to: (a) elevated plains on which grow small trees and shrubs, but no timber, classed as oak-barrens, pine-barrens, etc., according to the trees growing on them; also attributive as barrens oak n. (see quot. 1832); (b) in Kentucky, to certain really fertile tracts in the carboniferous limestone formation; (c) in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick (see quot. 1879). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > wild or uncultivated land > [noun] > barren land or desert desert?c1225 bare1683 slate-land1733 barren1784 mesquite1834 badlands1850 hardscrabble1859 pindan1888 in (also up) the blue1963 wasteland1966 1784 T. Jefferson in J. Sparks Corr. Amer. Revol. (1853) IV. 63 A mountainous barren which can never be inhabited. 1832 D. J. Browne Sylva Americana 269 In New Jersey and Pennsylvania it is called Barrens Oak, and Black Jack Oak in Maryland and the more southern states. 1850 C. Lyell 2nd Visit U.S. (ed. 2) II. 12 I had sometimes to put up with rough quarters in the pine-barrens. 1859 C. Kingsley Life & Lett. II. 100 To have the sewage conveyed..to fertilize the barrens of Surrey and Berkshire. 1877 J. A. Allen Amer. Bisons 460 The so-called Barrens of Kentucky, the southward extension of the Wabash prairies. 1879 Ld. Dunraven in 19th Cent. July 54 A barren..means in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick an open marshy space in the forest, sometimes so soft as to be almost impassable, at other times composed of good solid hard peat. < as lemmas |
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