| 单词 | red rod |
| 释义 | > as lemmasred rod red rod n. (more fully red rod Cornus) North American (now historical) the red osier dogwood, Cornus sericea (see osier adj.). ΚΠ 1785 H. Marshall Amer. Grove 36 Cornus sanguinea. American Red-rod cornus... The bark of the young shoots is very smooth, and of a beautiful dark red colour. 1804 B. S. Barton Elements Bot. (new ed.) 260 Several species of Cornus, especially..the Cornus sericea, called Red willow, and Red rod, have been found useful substitutes for the Peruvian bark in the treatments of intermittent and other fevers. 1933 Amer. Botanist Apr. 66 A second ‘squaw-bush’ with red twigs is Cornus amomum or C. sericea... The plant is naturally another ‘red osier’, ‘red rod’, ‘red willow’ and ‘rose willow’. 2004 P. Loewer Jefferson’s Garden 223 Jefferson also grew the swamp dogwood (Cornus sanguinea),..known in seventeenth-century trade as the dogberry. Humphrey Marshall, another colonial who traded seeds with England, called it the American red-rod Cornus. < as lemmas |
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