| 单词 | wickup tree |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswickup tree a. Usually in form wickup. More fully wickup tree. The American basswood, Tilia americana, which has fibrous inner bark used to make rope, bags, etc.The identity of the trees in quots. 1704 and 1778 is uncertain.Now only in lists of alternative names for the American basswood. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > non-British timber trees > [noun] > North American arrowwood1578 white pine1682 wicopy1704 American olive1772 pumpkin pine1809 mountain mahogany1810 redwood1819 western yellow pine1857 western hemlock1867 western red cedar1874 Sitka cedar1875 ponderosa1878 walking stick1910 1704 in Early Rec. Town of Providence (Rhode Island) (1894) V. 244 Two trees growing out of one Roote Called Wickupp trees. 1778 J. Carver Trav. N.-Amer. xix. 499 The Wickopick or Suckwick appears to be a species of the white wood,..distinguished..by a peculiar quality in the bark, which when pounded and moistened..becomes..of the consistence..of size. 1842 E. Field Note Sept. (Providence, Rhode Island Hist. Soc., accompanying donation of basket, item 1842.2.1) i. 42 The squaw..peeled the inner bark from the Wickup tree. 1888 J. L. Bennett Plants Rhode Island 7 Tilia, L. Linden Basswood. Americana, L. Wick-up Tree. 1902 Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 15 266 But the name wicopy does not properly belong to the ‘leatherwood’, but to the basswood of Canada, the ‘whitewood’ (Tilia Americana) of the eastern United States. 1999 Nature Canada Autumn 8/1 The roster of tree names of native origin includes hickory, pecan, persimmon..and catalpa... Also on this list is wicopy, another term for the basswood tree. 2004 J. Meyer Tree Bk. ii. 135/2 You can find the American linden under a variety of names, including basswood, whitewood,..and last but not least, wickup. < as lemmas |
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