单词 | ponticum |
释义 | ponticumn. A purple-flowered evergreen rhododendron, Rhododendron ponticum, originally of Spain, Portugal, and Asia Minor, but extensively cultivated in Britain during Victorian times, now widely naturalized and often regarded as an invasive weed. Cf. rhododendron n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > cultivated or ornamental trees and shrubs > [noun] > azaleas or rhododendrons mountain rose1640 rhododendron1657 Alpine rose1728 winterbloom1752 azalea1753 mountain rosebay1759 rosebay1760 rhodora1770 mountain laurel1785 swamp azalea1796 big laurel1810 rose tree1818 white honeysuckle1818 meadow pink1827 Pinkster1833 mayflower1838 alpenrose1839 swamp pink1840 rhodie1851 swamp honeysuckle1856 ponticum1875 tree azalea1884 rhodo1886 Kurume azalea1920 1875 H. Fraser Handy Bk. Ornamental Conifers 185 The best and most commonly-used stocks for grafting are free-grown seedlings of the robust form of the common Ponticum. 1917 J. G. Millais Rhododendrons I. viii. 227/2 Enormous numbers of young ponticums are annually used as stocks for the finer varieties. 1962 R. Page Educ. Gardener 27 We uprooted the ponticums and burned them. 1994 C. McWilliam Debatable Land (1995) vii. 156 Around big houses tough windbreaks flowered a washed-out purple, the ineradicable stain of ponticum. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1875 |
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