| 单词 | trailing arbutus |
| 释义 | > as lemmastrailing arbutus b. Of a plant, or a branch, stem, or shoot of a plant: see trail v.1 6. Also in the names of plants with a trailing habit; trailing arbutus: = New England mayflower n. at New England n. 2c; also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > [adjective] > climbing, spreading, or creeping running1548 spreading1560 flat1578 ramping1578 wandering1590 upcreeping1611 gadding1638 rambling1653 obsequious1657 reptant1657 scansive1657 scansory1657 procumbent1668 repent1669 scandenta1682 supine1686 scrambling1688 creeping1697 sarmentous1721 reptile1727 sarmentose1760 prostrate1773 trailing1785 decumbent1789 travelling1822 vagrant1827 sarmentaceous1830 humifuse1854 sarmentiferous1858 amphibryous1866 humistratous1880 climbing1882 clambering1883 the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > climbing or creeping plants > non-British climbing or creeping plants > [noun] > North American woodbine1624 Virginia vine1629 staff-tree1633 Virginia creeper?1703 climbing vine1760 mayflower1778 pepper vine1783 arbutus1785 trailing arbutus1785 pipe vine1803 Ampelopsis1805 ground-laurel1814 waxwork1818 ivory plum1828 fever twig1830 yerba buena1847 mountain pink1850 New England mayflower1855 creeping snowberry1856 Virginian creeper1856 May blossom1871 sand verbena1880 staff-vine1884 1698 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 20 468 Stalks, round and most commonly upright, not square nor trayling. 1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (1721) I. 161 The right sort hath long Stalks and trailing Branches. 1785 M. Cutler in Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. 1 413 Cuscuta... Trailing Cockspur... Borders of brooks and ditches. 1785 H. Marshall Arbustrum Americanum 42 Trailing Arbutus..grows naturally upon northern hills, or mountains. 1813 H. Muhlenberg Catal. Plantarum Americæ Septentrionalis 91 Salix prostrata. Trailing willow. 1813 H. Muhlenberg Catal. Plantarum Americæ Septentrionalis 93 Juniferus prostrata. Trailing juniper. 1855 Harvard Mag. 1 232 Most admired of our spring flowers is the Ground Laurel, Epigæa repens, commonly called Trailing Arbutus, or New England Mayflower. 1861 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1859–60 4 462 We have on the lake shore a beautiful trailing evergreen—the Trailing Juniper. ?1877 F. E. Hulme Familiar Wild Flowers I. Summary p. vi Branches long, very trailing.., slender, purplish; prickles. 1878 R. T. Cooke Happy Dodd 347 A profusion of trailing pine had been stored away in the barn cellar, before frost came. 1899 M. Going Field, Forest, & Wayside Flowers 251 The lycopodiums..under the name of..‘club-moss’, or ‘trailing-evergreen’, are familiar to almost every one who has summered in New England. 1939 P. G. Wodehouse Uncle Fred in Springtime i. 18 The male, Barny, was calling me a trailing arbutus..and The Subject was talking about horsewhips. 1979 United States 1980–1 (Penguin Travel Guides) 633 Among the many woodland trails are no less than 600 varieties of flowering plants—including the trailing yew, unique to this island. < as lemmas |
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