| 单词 | red sallow |
| 释义 | > as lemmasred sallow red sallow n. (also red sally) (a) purple loosestrife, Lythrum salicaria (now English regional and rare); (b) any of various willows (genus Salix) having red bark or wood, esp. purple willow, S. purpurea; (also) the wood or a branch of any of these trees. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > willow and allies > [noun] > osier or basket willow osierc1175 withenc1230 osier tree1500 red withy?1523 spert1578 gelster1670 osier willow1693 red saugh1776 red sallow1798 red osier1807 sedge-willow1908 OE Lacnunga (2001) I. cxlvi. 100 Genim þu saluian leaf..& persoces leaf & reades seales leaf. 1686 R. Blome Gentlemans Recreation v. ii. 177 The Red Sallow, or Withe, and the Ground Hazel,..are of all the others the most esteemed as being the toughest and lighest, and yet strong enough to hold the bigest Fish. 1798 R. Douglas Gen. View Agric. Roxburgh & Selkirk 120 A species of willow, known by the name of red saugh or sallow, is esteemed next in value to ash, oak and elm. 1851 T. Sternberg Dial. & Folk-lore Northants. 86 A species of red sallow concerning which there is a superstition that a branch hung up over the hearth preserves the cattle from disease, &c. 1886 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names Sally, Red, Lythrum Salicaria, L. Lanc. (Southport), where it is much gathered for medicinal purposes. 1959 Music & Lett. 40 180 The shape of the irish harp is familiar enough, with its curved fore-pillar of bog-oak and its soundboard of red sallow. < as lemmas |
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