单词 | wayfaring tree |
释义 | wayfaring treen. 1. A tall Eurasian shrub, Viburnum lantana (family Caprifoliaceae), having broad oval leaves with a downy underside, small white flowers in dense heads, and red and black berries. 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 (heading) Of the Wayfaring tree. 1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum 1449 Gerard calleth it in English the Waifaring tree, but I know no travailer doth take either pleasure or profit by it, more then by any other of the hedge trees. 1670 J. Evelyn Sylva (ed. 2) xxi. §19. 101 The Viburnum, or Way-faring tree,..makes the most plyant and best bands to Fagot with. 1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I Viburnum; The Wayfaring or Pliant Mealy Tree. 1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xvii. 246 Wayfaring-tree, Marsh-Elder, and Laurustinus, are all of one genus. 1831 W. Howitt Bk. Seasons 141 Wayfaring tree! what ancient claim Hast thou to that right pleasant name? 1859 W. S. Coleman Our Woodlands 121 The Wayfaring Tree, belonging to the same genus as the Guelder Rose, bears a considerable resemblance to that shrub, both in its flowers and berries; but in the leaves differs entirely. 1966 J. Sankey Chalkland Ecol. v. 110 Chalk plants..occur commonly in south-eastern and southern England, for example, chalk milkwort, white helleborine and wayfaring tree. 1999 Your Garden Oct. 42/3 Georgina is making plans for an area soon to be vacated by a wayfaring tree. 2. North American. More fully American wayfaring tree. The hobblebush, Viburnum lantanoides. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > viburnums or guelder rose and allies > [noun] > American wayfaring-tree moose bush1784 wayfaring tree1785 sheep-berry1814 witchhopple1826 hobble-bush1842 hopple1853 wayfarer's tree1853 devil's shoestring1860 tangle-leg1860 1785 H. Marshall Arbustrum Americanum 159 (heading) Pliant meally, or way-faring tree. 1814 F. Pursh Flora Amer. Septentrionalis II. Index 711 Way-faring-tree. 1851 J. Breck Flower-garden 304 Viburnum lantanoides.—Wayfaring Tree, Hobble Bush. 1885 Canad. Horticulturist 8 75/1 The American Wayfaring Tree or Hobble Bush (Viburnum lantanoides) is deserving of more attention as an ornamental shrub than it has received. 1890 P. Henderson Handbk. Plants (new ed.) 477/2 The Wayfaring Tree or Hobble-bush (V. lantanoides) is another interesting small tree. 1968 S. F. Cooper Rural Hours 235 The American ‘wayfaring tree’..scarcely deserves the name; though pretty in its way, it is only a shrub. 2010 J. Lang Six Poets from Mountain South v. 132 ‘Witch-hobble’..[is] a species of Viburnum (also known as hobble-bush and Wayfaring tree). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1597 |
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