| 单词 | scrub oak |
| 释义 | > as lemmasscrub oak scrub oak n. (a) one of several North American dwarf oaks; (b) Casuarina cunninghamii. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > oak and allies > [noun] > dwarf, scrub, or shrub varieties scrub oak1671 ground-oaka1723 shrub oak1753 bear oak1810 shin-oak1844 Sadler's oak1897 1671 M. Lister Let. 4 Mar. in H. Oldenburg Corr. (1970) VII. 493 Thus dryed they use in yt Country to set fire of ye Ilex or scrub-oake (as we in England burn our Ling (i.e. Erica) in ye moores) when it is grown old & dry barked. 1766 J. Bartram Diary 3 Jan. in Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. (1942) 33 42/1 We came to Round-lake,..almost surrounded with palmetto, pine, and scrub-oak. 1779 Mass. Hist. Soc. 2nd Ser. II. 474 The land the Army came by this day is very poor, chiefly scrub-oak plains. 1796 B. Hawkins Lett. 16 The lands in this vale not rich, the timber small and mostly scruboak. 1805 Z. M. Pike Acct. Exped. Sources Mississippi (1810) 40 Found some scrub oak. 1815 N. Amer. Rev. 1 20 It brings to the fancy a flock of merino lambs in a field of scrub oaks. 1848 E. Bryant What I saw in Calif. xi. 155 I noticed in one of the ravines to-day, the scrub-oak, or what is commonly called black-jack. 1861 O. W. Norton Army Lett. 26 The timber here is mostly small, scrub oaks, etc. 1884 E. P. Roe in Harper's Mag. Feb. 457/1 An envious scrub-oak tore it off. 1897 Outing (U.S.) 30 68/2 Then getting into a dense pine woods we left the trail entirely, and found ourselves wandering around in a thicket of scrub oaks. 1918 W. Cather My Ántonia ii. xiv. 272 The dogwoods and scrub-oaks began to turn up the silvery under-side of their leaves. 1947 V. H. Cahalane Mammals N. Amer. 365 One pair of these pockets can carry as many as twenty-seven scrub-oak acorns. 1964 R. Murphy Pond i. 9 The second-growth pine woods, had gone back to brush, green-brier, scrub oak. < as lemmas |
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