| 单词 | pry tree |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspry tree More fully pry tree. The small-leaved lime, Tilia cordata. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > tree or plant bearing citrus fruit > lime trees linda700 bast treea1425 linnc1475 tilleul1530 pry1573 fir-beech1577 linden1577 teil1589 linden-tree1591 tillet1601 bass-wood1670 red lime1709 lime-tree1748 parakeet bur1866 1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 33v Lop, poppler, and salow, elme, maple & prye. 1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 355 The wild kind [of Lime-tree] bearing a smaller leaf than the other, by which I suppose, he [sc. Evelyn] means the Tree which they call the Pry-tree, which grows the most plentiful in Essex. 1789 R. Gough in tr. W. Camden Britannia II. 69/2 Tilia Europœa..small-leaved Lime or Linden-tree, Baste or Pry; in the hedges frequent. 1923 E. Gepp Essex Dial. Dict. (ed. 2) 89 Pry, the small-leaved Lime. 1986 O. Rackham Hist. Countryside (1997) ix. 183 A remarkable roadside hedge..composed almost entirely of the pry tree (small-leaved lime) with occasional service. Pry and service..are woodland, not hedgerow trees. 1993 R. Fortey Hidden Landscape 236 The wildwood of 4500 years ago was, in the South-east, typified by a variety of lime (prye) woodland which is hard to find in more than small patches today. < as lemmas |
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