单词 | black haw |
释义 | black hawn. Chiefly North American. 1. The stag bush, Viburnum prunifolium, of the south-eastern United States; the edible blue-black fruit of this plant. Also: a medicinal preparation of the bark of this plant, sometimes used as an antispasmodic.Occasionally also applied to the similar plant, V. lentago, and its fruit. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > viburnums or guelder rose and allies > [noun] bendwithc1440 opier1548 opulus1548 ople1551 dwarf plane tree1578 water elder1578 whitten1578 guelder rose1597 rose elder1597 wayfaring man's tree1597 wayfaring tree1597 opiet1601 cotton tree1633 viorne1637 mealy tree1640 laurustinus1664 stinking tree1681 black haw1688 laurel-thyme1693 laurustine1693 viburnum1731 wayfaring shrub1731 May rose1753 pembina1760 snowball tree1760 mealtree1785 stink-tree1795 cherry-wood1821 snowball1828 sloe1846 withe-rod1846 lithy-tree1866 nannyberry1867 king's crown1879 stag bush1884 snowball bush1931 1688 J. Ray Historia Plantarum II. (Appendix) sig. Aaaaaaaa2 Rhamnus Prunifolius fructu nigro... The black Haw. 1709 J. Lawson New Voy. Carolina 107 The Black haw grows on a slender Tree, about the Height of a Quince-Tree, or something higher. 1785 G. Washington Diary 2 Mar. (1978) IV. 97 Planted the remainder of the Ash Trees..all the black haws—all the large berried thorns. 1833 Farmers' Reg. Aug. 145/2 The Slow or Black Haw, (Viburnum Prunifolium) one of the prettiest of our many native shrubs..may be propagated from the seeds. 1857 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1856–7 2 631 They are also very fond of the berries of the black-haw (Viburnum lentago). 1872 E. Eggleston End of World xxi. 145 The black-haw bushes hung over the roadside. 1891 Fur, Fin & Feather Mar. 169 A bear likes wild plums and black haws. 1914 Eclectic Med. Jrnl. Oct. 542 As a uterine sedative and tonic I use black haw perhaps oftener than any other drug. 1974 D. Sears Lark in Clear Air 79 The blossoms on the apple, chokecherry and saskatoon trees had dropped off, but the black haws stood smothered in white. 2004 G. Sternberg Native Trees N. Amer. 500/2 All viburnums tolerate shade much better than drought, but blackhaw is much less picky than most shrubby viburnums. 2. Any of several kinds of hawthorn (genus Crataegus) with dark purple berries; esp. C. douglasii, of the north-west coast of North America. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > thorny berry-bush > [noun] > hawthorn and allies hawthorna700 hawthorn-treec1290 whitethorna1300 haw-treec1325 albespyne?a1425 thorn-tree1483 mespilus1548 may-branch1560 quickthorn1571 hedge-bush1576 busket1579 May-bush1579 Neapolitan medlar1597 azarole1658 pyracanth1664 white bush1676 Glastonbury thorna1697 quick1727 evergreen thorn1731 blackthorn1737 whitethorn1788 oriental medlar1797 haw1821 May-haw1840 Maythorn1844 May1848 pear thorn1848 pink thorn1852 aronia thorn1882 scarlet thorn1882 black haw1897 1897 G. B. Sudworth Arborescent Flora U.S. 230 Cratægus tomentosa. Black Haw... [Also called] Pear Haw (Miss., Ohio). 1920 C. F. Saunders Useful Wild Plants of U.S. & Canada v. 92 The shining blackish berries of the Black Haw (Crataegus Douglasii, Lindl.), common in the Pacific Northwest, and sweet and juicy enough to be pleasant eating uncooked. 1983 Alton (Illinois) Tel. 5 Oct. a10/1 The Department of Conservation is trying to find some seeds of black haw, a native small tree. 2003 A. S. Earle & J. L. Reveal Lewis & Clark's Green World 85/1 The black haw is a large shrub or small tree growing to twenty feet or so. 3. A small tree, Sideroxylon (formerly Bumelia) lanuginosum (family Sapotaceae), with blue-black berries found in the southern United States and Mexico. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > berry-bush or -tree > [noun] > North American > others redcurrant1633 wolf-berry1834 Oregon grape1851 black haw1897 1897 G. B. Sudworth Arborescent Flora U.S. 318 Bumelia lanuginosa... Common Names... Black Haw. 1933 J. K. Small Man. Southeastern Flora 1034 B. lanuginosa..Black-haw... The yellow or light-brown heart-wood is close-grained, but rather soft. 1960 R. A. Vines Trees, Shrubs, & Woody Vines Southwest 833 B. lanuginosa... Vernacular names are..False-buckthorn, and Blackhaw. The black fruit is edible, but not tasty. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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