| 单词 | red oak |
| 释义 | > as lemmasred oak red oak n. any of various oak trees with reddish bark, wood, etc.; (now) spec. any of several North American oaks, (esp. Quercus rubra), characterized by leaves which have bristle-tipped lobes and by acorns which ripen in the second year (cf. white oak n. at white adj. and n. Compounds 1g(b)(ii)); the wood of such a tree. [Also attested early in place names, as Radenhech, Buckinghamshire (1162; representing the Old English dative rēadan ǣc; now Radnage).] ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > oak and allies > [noun] > other oaks red oakOE cerre-tree1577 gall-tree1597 robur1601 kermes1605 live oak1610 white oak1610 royal oak1616 swamp-oak1683 grey oak1697 rock oak1699 chestnut oak1703 water oak1709 Spanish oak1716 turkey-oak1717 willow oak1717 iron oak1724 maiden oak1725 scarlet oak1738 black jack1765 post oak1775 durmast1791 mountain chestnut oak1801 quercitron oak1803 laurel oak1810 mossy-cup oak1810 rock chestnut oak1810 pin oak1812 overcup oak1814 overcup white oak1814 bur oak1815 jack oak1816 mountain oak1818 shingle-oak1818 gall-oak1835 peach oak1835 golden oak1838 weeping oak1838 Aleppo oak1845 Italian oak1858 dyer's oak1861 Gambel's Oak1878 maul oak1884 punk oak1884 sessile oak1906 Garry oak1908 roble1908 OE Bounds (Sawyer 878) in P. H. Sawyer Charters of Burton Abbey (1979) 46 On ða stræte forþ æfter strete oð cume to þan readan acon & ðær ðwers ofer ða wuda. 1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia i. iii. 6 The large and loose grained timber of the red Oake and frusshie Ash. 1634 W. Wood New Englands Prospect i. v. 16 Of Oakes there be three kindes, the red Oake, white, and blacke. 1717 Petiveriana iii. 11/1 Red Oak. Is a porous Wood. 1816–20 T. Green Universal Herbal II. 857/2 Quercus rubra, Red Oak-tree. N. Amer.—Varieties, Champion, Scarlet, and Mountain Red Oak. 1852 C. Morfit Art of Tanning, Currying, & Leather-dressing (1853) 98 Quercus Falcata.—This oak, known..in the Carolinas and Georgia by that of red oak. 1901 H. Robertson Inlander 310 I des gwine down to de branch to git me some red-oak bark. 2002 Northern Woodlands Spring 46 I found myself in the woods holding a splitting maul while my father gestured toward a rather large pile of what I now know to be red oak. < as lemmas |
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