单词 | west indian greenheart |
释义 | > as lemmasWest Indian greenheart 2. Any of several tropical and South American trees used for their hard durable timber; esp. (a) the cogwood tree of Jamaica, Ziziphus chloroxylon; (b) a large evergreen laurel tree of northern South America, Chlorocardium rodiei (cf. sense 1a); (c) (more fully West Indian greenheart) a small tree, Colubrina ferruginosa (family Rhamnaceae), of Jamaica (also called snakewood).bastard, false greenheart: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > non-British timber trees > [noun] > of South America or West Indies > greenheart greenheart1756 sipeera-tree1769 bebeeru- 1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. ii. 187 The Greenheart or Cogwood Tree... It is generally esteemed one of the best timber-woods in the island. 1769 E. Bancroft Ess. Nat. Hist. Guiana 333 They contentedly recur to the use of Sipera, or Green-Hart-tree Apples. 1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam II. xxviii. 335 The brown-heart is in hardness of the same consistency as the purple-heart, and the green-heart. 1811–12 W. J. Titford Sketches Hortus Botanicus Americanus explan. Pl. VII. Jamaica Laurel, Greenheart, or Cogwood Tree (L. chloroxylon), is esteemed the best timber wood in Jamaica, and used always for the cogs or rollers in sugar mills. a1832 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) XX. 6/2 The timber of the Green Hart, or Sipiera tree, is very valuable. 1839 M. J. Higgins Ess. (1875) xvii Moras, greenhearts, and silk~cotton trees, rearing their heads far above the other giants of the forest. 1874 F. G. D. Bedford Sailor's Pocket Bk. ix. 291 The Morra and Greenheart of British Guiana. 1920 O. W. Smith Casting Tackle & Methods i. 15 True greenheart grows only in British Guiana, where immense forests of the trees are to be found. 1978 Post–Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) 7 Dec. 1/4 The indigenous purpleheart and greenheart trees were of such hard wood that the pilgrims ruined their saws trying to clear them. 2005 C. Tudge Secret Life Trees vi. 134 But most famous of all the Lauraceae timbers comes from the greenheart (O. rodiaei), the pride of Guyana. < as lemmas |
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