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单词 wayfaring tree
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wayfaring treen.

Brit. /ˈweɪfɛːrɪŋ ˌtriː/, U.S. /ˈweɪˌfɛrɪŋ ˌtri/
Forms: see wayfaring n. and tree n.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: wayfaring n., tree n.
Etymology: < wayfaring n. + tree n. Compare wayfaring man's tree n. at wayfaring man n. Compounds.Gerard (see quot. 1597 at sense 1) also coined the name traveller's joy for the unrelated plant Clematis vitalba. For both plants he cites the French name viorne (see viorne n. and compare viburnum n.); in quot. 1597 for traveller's joy n. at traveller n. Compounds 2 he also provides a post-classical Latin name viorna with a gloss vias ornans adorning the roads, thus associating it with the unrelated classical Latin via road, way (see via n.).
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.
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opier1548
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ople1551
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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
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pembina1760
snowball tree1760
mealtree1785
stink-tree1795
cherry-wood1821
snowball1828
sloe1846
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lithy-tree1866
nannyberry1867
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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.
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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. 132Witch-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).
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