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单词 rosebay rhododendron
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rosebay rhododendron
3. Now chiefly North American. Any of numerous plants and trees of the genus Rhododendron (including those formerly classified in the genus Azalea; cf. rhododendron n. 2); esp. the great laurel, R. maximum, a large shrub of eastern North America with clusters of white, pink, or purple flowers (also more fully rosebay rhododendron). Frequently with distinguishing word. mountain rosebay: see the first element.
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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
1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 325 Rose Bay, Dwarf, Rhododendron.
1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) II. 239 Azalea procumbens,..Trailing Rosebay. Highland mountains.
1847 A. Wood Class-bk. Bot. (ed. 2) 376 Rhododendron maximum, American Rose Bay.
1868 Amer. Bee Jrnl. 3 170/2 The large Rhododendron, Mountain Laural, or Rosebay, yields honey abundantly, but of a deleterious and poisonous quality.
1917 C. H. Snow Wood & Org. Struct. Materials vii. 195 The wood of the Great Laurel or Rose Bay (Rhododendron maximum) is hard, rather brittle, close-grained, and heavy, and is sometimes used as a substitute for Boxwood.
1950 Amer. Midlant Naturalist 43 749 Rhododendron maximum L. Rosebay Rhododendron. Also confined to mountainous areas but absent from the Cumberland.
2006 G. Ellison Blue Ridge Nature Jrnl. 34/1 Rosebay is the only evergreen or deciduous species in the genus that can attain arboreal proportions.
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