| 单词 | wayfaring man's tree |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswayfaring man's tree wayfaring man's tree n. rare (now historical) = wayfaring tree n. 1. 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 1597 J. Gerard Herball iii. cxv. 1305 The Wayfaring mans tree groweth vp to the height of an hedge tree, of a meane bignesse. 1900 A. E. P. R. Dowling Flora of Sacred Nativity 203 We have no right to include the Wayfaring Man's Tree (Viburnum lantana), another charming English designation, that seems to come to the mind as suitable in this place. 1940 V. Quinn Shrubs in Garden x. 252 A far happier explanation is that the sheer beauty of this shrub of the highway hedges—white with flower-clusters in spring, distinctive in its gray garb among summer's greenery, richly colorful with crimson leaves and purple-black fruit in fall—cheers the weary wayfarer. Nor is this so far-fetched, for its sixteenth-century name was ‘wayfaring man's tree’. < as lemmas |
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