Sitkaadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈsɪtkə/, U.S.

/ˈsɪtkə/

Forms: 1800s Sheetka (in sense B. 1, rare), 1800s Shitka (in sense B. 1, rare), 1800s Sitca, 1800s– Sitka.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Tlingit. Partly from a proper name. Etymons: Tlingit Sheet'ká, proper name Sitka.

Etymology: Partly (i) < Tlingit Sheet'ká, shortening of Shee At'iká (in Shee At'iká Ḵwáan, self-designation, lit. ‘people from the outer edge of Shee, i.e. Baranof Island’), apparently via Russian (see note), and partly (in uses with reference to trees) (ii) < the name of Sitka (1814 as Sitca in a translation from Russian; formerly also sometimes Sheetka, Shitka), a town on Baranof Island (part of the Alaska Panhandle), named after these people.Compare Russian Sitka (1812 or earlier), former name of Baranof Island (under Russian administration, the town itself was named Novo-Arxangel′sk). This is not attested in Russian as a noun denoting the people, but the form of the English word (with initial si-) suggests that Russian played a part in the transmission.

A. adj.

Designating (a member of) a tribe of the Tlingit whose former territory was on the western side of Baranof and Chichagof islands in the Alaska Panhandle (including the site of the city of Sitka, which was named after them); of or relating to these people or their language. Cf. Sitkan adj. 1. Now chiefly historical.

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the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of British Columbia, Alberta, and Alaska > [adjective]

Dogrib1766

Nootka1784

Nootkan1790

Dog-ribbed1791

beaver1801

Okanagan1814

Carrier1820

Sitka1822

Nanaimo1827

Loucheux1828

Nass1830

Tsimshian1836

Sitkan1851

Makah1855

Snohomish1856

Wakash1856

Songhees1860

Stoney1861

Nisga'a1874

Tlingit1881

Nimpkish1886

Wakashan1892

Musqueam1902

Gitksan1917

Squamish1928

'Namgis1966

Nuu-chah-nulth1978

Nuxalk1981

the mind > language > languages of the world > North American > [adjective] > of or relating to Tlingit

Sitka1822

Sitkan1851

1822 N. Amer. Rev. Oct. 395 The intolerable tyranny, exercised by the Russians, over the Sitka Indians, in seizing their chiefs, and loading them with irons.

1830 J. S. Green Jrnl. Tour North West Coast Amer. (1915) 61 Here we found the Tum-Garse Indians, a small tribe who also speak the Sitka language, and reside in this neighborhood.

1890 Ann. Rep. Board of Regents Smithsonian Inst. 1888 296 The Yakutat and Sitka canoes were never as large as those of the Haida.

1908 Amer. Anthropologist 10 645 Unquestionably the Huna and Sitka tribes shared in the barter with the Yakutat.

1982 Arctic Anthropol. 19 51/1 The tunic and moccasin-trousers had been..purchased by a chief of the Sitka Tlingit in 1900.

2009 Amer. Ethnol. 36 183/2 Thornton describes the fascinating use of place names in the Sitka story of the ‘Salmon Boy’.

B. n.

a. The Tlingit language spoken by the Sitka tribe. rare.

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the mind > language > languages of the world > North American > [noun] > Na-Dene > Tlingit

Sitka1830

Sitkan1848

Tlingit1908

1830 J. S. Green in Missionary Herald (Boston) Nov. 344/1 The Sitka I think is peculiarly soft and musical.

1964 tr. P. Tikhmenev in Internat. Jrnl. Amer. Linguistics 30 128/1 The Tlingit language can be divided into three dialects: Sitka, Yakutat, and Haida.

b. (A member of) a tribe of the Tlingit whose former territory was on the western side of Baranof and Chichagof islands in the Alaska Panhandle (including the site of the city of Sitka, which was named after them). Cf. Sitkan n. 1. Now chiefly historical.

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the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of British Columbia, Alberta, and Alaska > [noun]

Slave1789

beaver1801

Carrier1801

Musqueam1808

Nootkian1811

Okanagan1814

Takulli1820

Dogrib1823

Nanaimo1827

Loucheux1828

Bella Coola1834

Nootkan1835

Chilkat1836

Nootka1846

Squamish1846

Siwash1847

Kwakiutl1848

Nitinaht1848

Sitkan1848

Sitka1853

Makah1855

Stick Indian1857

Songhees1860

Stoney1861

Mattole1864

Tlingit1865

Nisga'a1874

Hoochinoo1878

Nimpkish1885

Tsimshian1888

Gitksan1889

Nuxalk1910

Snohomish1910

Nuu-chah-nulth1983

Ditidaht1988

'Namgis1994

1853 Weekly Herald (N.Y.) 8 Jan. Forty six Stacken Indians massacred by the Sitkas at Sitka.

1879 W. G. Morris Public Service of Alaska 14 In the fall of 1877, a potlatch was given at Sitka by Jack, chief of the Sitkas, and it is estimated correctly he gave away on that occasion 500 blankets.

1910 F. W. Hodge Handbk. Amer. Indians II. 582/2 Sitka,..a Tlingit tribe..on the w. coast of Baranof id., Alaska.

1946 W. R. Goldschmidt & T. H. Haas Haa Aaní (1998) viii. 61/1 Of all the Tlingit people, the Sitkas have probably had the longest contact with European civilization.

2005 R. L. Bland & K. G. Solovjova tr. A. V. Grinev Tlingit Indians in Russ. Amer. 124 He..speaks of the murder of several Indians who were not Sitkas but rather the family of the chief of the Kuiu kwáan.

2. Short for Sitka spruce n. at Compounds 2.

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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > conifers > [adjective] > of or relating to other conifers

spruce pine1731

cycadaceous1837

cycadeous1847

zamioid1860

araucarian1863

podocarpous1882

Sitka1883

podocarpaceous1932

1883 Newark (Ohio) Daily Advocate 21 Sept. The close forests of yellow cedar, Sitka and Douglass spruce..have never been devastated by fires.

1921 Q. Jrnl. Forestry 15 15 A part of the ground was planted with Sitka grown in Lazonby Nursery (Permian sandstone).

1928 Daily Mail 9 Aug. 13/4 The Duchy estates on Dartmoor, where it is hoped to plant 5,000 acres with sitka, Norway spruce, and Douglas fir.

1965 G. Maxwell House of Elrig vi. 98 The needles of unthinned sitka.

2009 J. Miller Foresters ii. 67 The shedding of the needles in the autumn..reveals plainly where this tree [sc. the larch] has been planted on a hillside, often in strips between and around blocks of Sitka or other conifers which, of course, remain dark green all year round.

Compounds

C1. General attributive use denoting plants and animals native to the region of Sitka, Alaska.

ΚΠ

1899 Field Columbian Mus. Ann. Rep. 1898–9 385 Department of Zoology... Collected by D. G. Elliot, Field Columbian Museum..1 Sitka deer (female), 1 Sitka deer (fawn).

1969 W. B. Bollen et al. Infl. Sitka Alder on Landslide Mt. Rainier (U.S.D.A. Forest Service Res. Note PNW-103) 1 Corresponding values for the moraine soil indicated appreciable organic matter from the Sitka alder and its associated mosses and lichens.

1972 A. S. Harris Nat. Reforestation Afognak Island (U.S.D.A. Forest Service Res. Note PNW-176) 9/1 Sitka black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus sitkensis) were introduced to Kodiak Island in 1924 and have spread to Afognak Island.

2007 L. A. Viereck & E. L. Little Alaska Trees & Shrubs (ed. 2) 175 Sitka alder is a spreading shrub, common to abundant, with many stems, forming thickets in marshes, along streams, on landslides, and in clearings.

C2.

Sitka cedar n. the Nootka cypress, Callitropis nootkatensis; the wood of this tree.

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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > conifers > [noun] > Lawson's cypress

yellow cedar1840

Oregon cedar1855

Lawson cypress1858

Nootka cypress1860

Sitka cedar1875

swamp-cypress1876

Sitka cypress1884

lawsoniana1959

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > non-British timber trees > [noun] > North American

arrowwood1578

white pine1682

wicopy1704

American olive1772

pumpkin pine1809

mountain mahogany1810

redwood1819

western yellow pine1857

western hemlock1867

western red cedar1874

Sitka cedar1875

ponderosa1878

walking stick1910

1875 Rep. Superintendent U.S. Coast Surv. 1872 App. 192 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (42nd Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 240) XII Among the miscellaneous drift-stuff which accumulates in those bays..are found..also, the Sitka cedar (C[upressus] Nutkatensis).

1947 Alaska Life Mar. 25/1 The school has its own sawmill and the work is mostly with Sitka cedar, which in its natural state makes a beautiful blond type of furniture or finishing wood.

2016 J. London Bella Bella (Electronic ed.) vi. It was dense with dark spruce and Sitka cedar scented the air.

Sitka cypress n. the Nootka cypress, Calitropis nootkatensis; the wood of this tree.

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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > conifers > [noun] > Lawson's cypress

yellow cedar1840

Oregon cedar1855

Lawson cypress1858

Nootka cypress1860

Sitka cedar1875

swamp-cypress1876

Sitka cypress1884

lawsoniana1959

1884 C. S. Sargent Rep. Forests N. Amer. 178 Chamæcyparis Nutkaensis... Yellow Cypress. Sitka Cypress.

1912 Bull. Misc. Information (Royal Bot. Gardens, Kew) No. 2 80 A number of common names are applied to the tree in addition to that of Yellow Cypress; some of them are Alaska Cedar, Yellow Cedar, and Sitka Cypress.

1984 H. Stewart Cedar (1995) ii. 25/1 Yellow Cedar... Most Canadians refer to the tree as a cedar, but some Americans call it a cypress, which is why its popular names include these variations: yellow cedar, yellow cypress, Sitka cedar, Sitka cypress.

Sitka pine n. the Sitka spruce, Picea sitchensis; the wood of this tree.

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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > conifers > [noun] > spruces

spruce?1602

Norway fir1666

spruce fir1676

hemlock tree1679

hemlock1728

spruce pine1731

white spruce1731

black spruce1741

red spruce1741

Norway spruce1766

silver fir1789

var1793

Engelmann1866

Sitka spruce1867

Sitka pine1868

skunk spruce1876

Colorado spruce1881

Yeddo spruce1932

1868 Russ. Amer.: Message President 214 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 2nd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. No. 177) XIII Here also we found the Sitka spruce, or pine, as it is erroneously called (Abies Sitkensis).

1884 N.Y. Times 5 Oct. 5/2 The white spruce, or Sitka pine..grows to a height of 150 and 175 feet.

1948 Antioch Rev. Winter 48 This would be the first step toward cutting off the magnificent Douglas fir and Sitka pine from 300,000 acres.

2009 D. Helvarg Rescue Warriors vii. 155 The boathouse is at the end of a steeply wooded peninsula of fern, Sitka pine, and Douglas firs.

Sitka spruce n. a large fast-growing conifer, Picea sitchensis (family Pinaceae), native to the coastal forest of north-western North America; (also) the light softwood timber of this tree.

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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > conifers > [noun] > spruces

spruce?1602

Norway fir1666

spruce fir1676

hemlock tree1679

hemlock1728

spruce pine1731

white spruce1731

black spruce1741

red spruce1741

Norway spruce1766

silver fir1789

var1793

Engelmann1866

Sitka spruce1867

Sitka pine1868

skunk spruce1876

Colorado spruce1881

Yeddo spruce1932

1867 J. Disturnell Infl. Climate N. & S. Amer. 103 On the North Pacific coast,..is found Sitka spruce, broad-leaved maple, Oregon crab-apple, Oregon alder, western hemlock,..and other species.

1895 F. Funston & F. V. Coville in Contrib. U.S. National Herbarium III. 328 The great bulk of this forest is composed of Sitka spruce.

1975 W. Condry Pathway to Wild ix. 151 If that other western American, the Sitka spruce, now planted so multitudinously in Britain, were also going to be given the chance of making forests of giant trees..then conservationists might be less unhappy with it.

1977 Chicago Tribune 2 Oct. 1. 39/2 (advt.) This fine piano was made specially for us. Its quality features include..solid Sitka spruce soundboard.

2007 Scots Mag. Mar. 330/1 Sitka Spruce provides..the principal raw material for wood-based panel plants in the UK.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	sitka
释义	Sitkaadj.n. Brit. /ˈsɪtkə/, U.S. /ˈsɪtkə/ Forms: 1800s Sheetka (in sense B. 1, rare), 1800s Shitka (in sense B. 1, rare), 1800s Sitca, 1800s– Sitka. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Tlingit. Partly from a proper name. Etymons: Tlingit Sheet'ká, proper name Sitka. Etymology: Partly (i) < Tlingit Sheet'ká, shortening of Shee At'iká (in Shee At'iká Ḵwáan, self-designation, lit. ‘people from the outer edge of Shee, i.e. Baranof Island’), apparently via Russian (see note), and partly (in uses with reference to trees) (ii) < the name of Sitka (1814 as Sitca in a translation from Russian; formerly also sometimes Sheetka, Shitka), a town on Baranof Island (part of the Alaska Panhandle), named after these people.Compare Russian Sitka (1812 or earlier), former name of Baranof Island (under Russian administration, the town itself was named Novo-Arxangel′sk). This is not attested in Russian as a noun denoting the people, but the form of the English word (with initial si-) suggests that Russian played a part in the transmission. A. adj. Designating (a member of) a tribe of the Tlingit whose former territory was on the western side of Baranof and Chichagof islands in the Alaska Panhandle (including the site of the city of Sitka, which was named after them); of or relating to these people or their language. Cf. Sitkan adj. 1. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of British Columbia, Alberta, and Alaska > [adjective] Dogrib1766 Nootka1784 Nootkan1790 Dog-ribbed1791 beaver1801 Okanagan1814 Carrier1820 Sitka1822 Nanaimo1827 Loucheux1828 Nass1830 Tsimshian1836 Sitkan1851 Makah1855 Snohomish1856 Wakash1856 Songhees1860 Stoney1861 Nisga'a1874 Tlingit1881 Nimpkish1886 Wakashan1892 Musqueam1902 Gitksan1917 Squamish1928 'Namgis1966 Nuu-chah-nulth1978 Nuxalk1981 the mind > language > languages of the world > North American > [adjective] > of or relating to Tlingit Sitka1822 Sitkan1851 1822 N. Amer. Rev. Oct. 395 The intolerable tyranny, exercised by the Russians, over the Sitka Indians, in seizing their chiefs, and loading them with irons. 1830 J. S. Green Jrnl. Tour North West Coast Amer. (1915) 61 Here we found the Tum-Garse Indians, a small tribe who also speak the Sitka language, and reside in this neighborhood. 1890 Ann. Rep. Board of Regents Smithsonian Inst. 1888 296 The Yakutat and Sitka canoes were never as large as those of the Haida. 1908 Amer. Anthropologist 10 645 Unquestionably the Huna and Sitka tribes shared in the barter with the Yakutat. 1982 Arctic Anthropol. 19 51/1 The tunic and moccasin-trousers had been..purchased by a chief of the Sitka Tlingit in 1900. 2009 Amer. Ethnol. 36 183/2 Thornton describes the fascinating use of place names in the Sitka story of the ‘Salmon Boy’. B. n. 1. a. The Tlingit language spoken by the Sitka tribe. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > North American > [noun] > Na-Dene > Tlingit Sitka1830 Sitkan1848 Tlingit1908 1830 J. S. Green in Missionary Herald (Boston) Nov. 344/1 The Sitka I think is peculiarly soft and musical. 1964 tr. P. Tikhmenev in Internat. Jrnl. Amer. Linguistics 30 128/1 The Tlingit language can be divided into three dialects: Sitka, Yakutat, and Haida. b. (A member of) a tribe of the Tlingit whose former territory was on the western side of Baranof and Chichagof islands in the Alaska Panhandle (including the site of the city of Sitka, which was named after them). Cf. Sitkan n. 1. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of British Columbia, Alberta, and Alaska > [noun] Slave1789 beaver1801 Carrier1801 Musqueam1808 Nootkian1811 Okanagan1814 Takulli1820 Dogrib1823 Nanaimo1827 Loucheux1828 Bella Coola1834 Nootkan1835 Chilkat1836 Nootka1846 Squamish1846 Siwash1847 Kwakiutl1848 Nitinaht1848 Sitkan1848 Sitka1853 Makah1855 Stick Indian1857 Songhees1860 Stoney1861 Mattole1864 Tlingit1865 Nisga'a1874 Hoochinoo1878 Nimpkish1885 Tsimshian1888 Gitksan1889 Nuxalk1910 Snohomish1910 Nuu-chah-nulth1983 Ditidaht1988 'Namgis1994 1853 Weekly Herald (N.Y.) 8 Jan. Forty six Stacken Indians massacred by the Sitkas at Sitka. 1879 W. G. Morris Public Service of Alaska 14 In the fall of 1877, a potlatch was given at Sitka by Jack, chief of the Sitkas, and it is estimated correctly he gave away on that occasion 500 blankets. 1910 F. W. Hodge Handbk. Amer. Indians II. 582/2 Sitka,..a Tlingit tribe..on the w. coast of Baranof id., Alaska. 1946 W. R. Goldschmidt & T. H. Haas Haa Aaní (1998) viii. 61/1 Of all the Tlingit people, the Sitkas have probably had the longest contact with European civilization. 2005 R. L. Bland & K. G. Solovjova tr. A. V. Grinev Tlingit Indians in Russ. Amer. 124 He..speaks of the murder of several Indians who were not Sitkas but rather the family of the chief of the Kuiu kwáan. 2. Short for Sitka spruce n. at Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > conifers > [adjective] > of or relating to other conifers spruce pine1731 cycadaceous1837 cycadeous1847 zamioid1860 araucarian1863 podocarpous1882 Sitka1883 podocarpaceous1932 1883 Newark (Ohio) Daily Advocate 21 Sept. The close forests of yellow cedar, Sitka and Douglass spruce..have never been devastated by fires. 1921 Q. Jrnl. Forestry 15 15 A part of the ground was planted with Sitka grown in Lazonby Nursery (Permian sandstone). 1928 Daily Mail 9 Aug. 13/4 The Duchy estates on Dartmoor, where it is hoped to plant 5,000 acres with sitka, Norway spruce, and Douglas fir. 1965 G. Maxwell House of Elrig vi. 98 The needles of unthinned sitka. 2009 J. Miller Foresters ii. 67 The shedding of the needles in the autumn..reveals plainly where this tree [sc. the larch] has been planted on a hillside, often in strips between and around blocks of Sitka or other conifers which, of course, remain dark green all year round. Compounds C1. General attributive use denoting plants and animals native to the region of Sitka, Alaska. ΚΠ 1899 Field Columbian Mus. Ann. Rep. 1898–9 385 Department of Zoology... Collected by D. G. Elliot, Field Columbian Museum..1 Sitka deer (female), 1 Sitka deer (fawn). 1969 W. B. Bollen et al. Infl. Sitka Alder on Landslide Mt. Rainier (U.S.D.A. Forest Service Res. Note PNW-103) 1 Corresponding values for the moraine soil indicated appreciable organic matter from the Sitka alder and its associated mosses and lichens. 1972 A. S. Harris Nat. Reforestation Afognak Island (U.S.D.A. Forest Service Res. Note PNW-176) 9/1 Sitka black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus sitkensis) were introduced to Kodiak Island in 1924 and have spread to Afognak Island. 2007 L. A. Viereck & E. L. Little Alaska Trees & Shrubs (ed. 2) 175 Sitka alder is a spreading shrub, common to abundant, with many stems, forming thickets in marshes, along streams, on landslides, and in clearings. C2. Sitka cedar n. the Nootka cypress, Callitropis nootkatensis; the wood of this tree. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > conifers > [noun] > Lawson's cypress yellow cedar1840 Oregon cedar1855 Lawson cypress1858 Nootka cypress1860 Sitka cedar1875 swamp-cypress1876 Sitka cypress1884 lawsoniana1959 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > non-British timber trees > [noun] > North American arrowwood1578 white pine1682 wicopy1704 American olive1772 pumpkin pine1809 mountain mahogany1810 redwood1819 western yellow pine1857 western hemlock1867 western red cedar1874 Sitka cedar1875 ponderosa1878 walking stick1910 1875 Rep. Superintendent U.S. Coast Surv. 1872 App. 192 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (42nd Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 240) XII Among the miscellaneous drift-stuff which accumulates in those bays..are found..also, the Sitka cedar (C[upressus] Nutkatensis). 1947 Alaska Life Mar. 25/1 The school has its own sawmill and the work is mostly with Sitka cedar, which in its natural state makes a beautiful blond type of furniture or finishing wood. 2016 J. London Bella Bella (Electronic ed.) vi. It was dense with dark spruce and Sitka cedar scented the air. Sitka cypress n. the Nootka cypress, Calitropis nootkatensis; the wood of this tree. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > conifers > [noun] > Lawson's cypress yellow cedar1840 Oregon cedar1855 Lawson cypress1858 Nootka cypress1860 Sitka cedar1875 swamp-cypress1876 Sitka cypress1884 lawsoniana1959 1884 C. S. Sargent Rep. Forests N. Amer. 178 Chamæcyparis Nutkaensis... Yellow Cypress. Sitka Cypress. 1912 Bull. Misc. Information (Royal Bot. Gardens, Kew) No. 2 80 A number of common names are applied to the tree in addition to that of Yellow Cypress; some of them are Alaska Cedar, Yellow Cedar, and Sitka Cypress. 1984 H. Stewart Cedar (1995) ii. 25/1 Yellow Cedar... Most Canadians refer to the tree as a cedar, but some Americans call it a cypress, which is why its popular names include these variations: yellow cedar, yellow cypress, Sitka cedar, Sitka cypress. Sitka pine n. the Sitka spruce, Picea sitchensis; the wood of this tree. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > conifers > [noun] > spruces spruce?1602 Norway fir1666 spruce fir1676 hemlock tree1679 hemlock1728 spruce pine1731 white spruce1731 black spruce1741 red spruce1741 Norway spruce1766 silver fir1789 var1793 Engelmann1866 Sitka spruce1867 Sitka pine1868 skunk spruce1876 Colorado spruce1881 Yeddo spruce1932 1868 Russ. Amer.: Message President 214 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 2nd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. No. 177) XIII Here also we found the Sitka spruce, or pine, as it is erroneously called (Abies Sitkensis). 1884 N.Y. Times 5 Oct. 5/2 The white spruce, or Sitka pine..grows to a height of 150 and 175 feet. 1948 Antioch Rev. Winter 48 This would be the first step toward cutting off the magnificent Douglas fir and Sitka pine from 300,000 acres. 2009 D. Helvarg Rescue Warriors vii. 155 The boathouse is at the end of a steeply wooded peninsula of fern, Sitka pine, and Douglas firs. Sitka spruce n. a large fast-growing conifer, Picea sitchensis (family Pinaceae), native to the coastal forest of north-western North America; (also) the light softwood timber of this tree. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > conifers > [noun] > spruces spruce?1602 Norway fir1666 spruce fir1676 hemlock tree1679 hemlock1728 spruce pine1731 white spruce1731 black spruce1741 red spruce1741 Norway spruce1766 silver fir1789 var1793 Engelmann1866 Sitka spruce1867 Sitka pine1868 skunk spruce1876 Colorado spruce1881 Yeddo spruce1932 1867 J. Disturnell Infl. Climate N. & S. Amer. 103 On the North Pacific coast,..is found Sitka spruce, broad-leaved maple, Oregon crab-apple, Oregon alder, western hemlock,..and other species. 1895 F. Funston & F. V. Coville in Contrib. U.S. National Herbarium III. 328 The great bulk of this forest is composed of Sitka spruce. 1975 W. Condry Pathway to Wild ix. 151 If that other western American, the Sitka spruce, now planted so multitudinously in Britain, were also going to be given the chance of making forests of giant trees..then conservationists might be less unhappy with it. 1977 Chicago Tribune 2 Oct. 1. 39/2 (advt.) This fine piano was made specially for us. Its quality features include..solid Sitka spruce soundboard. 2007 Scots Mag. Mar. 330/1 Sitka Spruce provides..the principal raw material for wood-based panel plants in the UK. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1822
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