单词 | woodland |
释义 | woodlandn. 1. a. Land covered with wood, i.e. with trees; a wooded region or piece of ground. ΘΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [noun] > wooded land wold786 frith?826 woodland869 woodc897 rough1332 foresta1375 firth?a1400 weald1544 bocage1644 parkland1649 bush1780 sylvanry1821 forestry1823 belting1844 rukh1856 treescape1885 bush1912 869 in Birch Cartul. Sax. II. 141 Ægþer ge etelond ge eyrð lond ge eac wudulond. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 851 Wenne hundes hine bistondeð i þon wode-londe. a1400 Sir Perc. 208 In that wodde land. c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Gouernaunce of Princis (1993) xxx. 105 Cow or calf..jn wodland vpbrocht. ?1537 R. Benese Bk. Measurynge Lande sig. Aij Woodlande and fyldelande be not measured with perches of lyke and equale length. 1580 T. Tusser Fiue Hundred Pointes Good Husbandrie (new ed.) f. 14 What champion vseth, that woodland refuseth. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 567 In the mids of this Woodland standeth Coventrey. 1612 J. Selden in M. Drayton Poly-olbion xiii. Illustr. 15 What is now the Woodland in Warwickeshire, was heretofore part of a larger Weald or Forest call'd Arden. 1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (1681) 88 There's no Field Champion-Land of that yearly value for either Corn or Pasture, as is the Wood-land. 1709 M. Prior Henry & Emma 307 She to the Wood-land with an Exile ran. 1763 W. Roberts Acct. First Discov. Florida 34 The number of marshes and woodlands prevented the horse from pursuing them. 1793 M. Cutler Let. 15 Nov. in W. P. Cutler & J. P. Cutler Life, Jrnls. & Corr. M. Cutler (1888) II. 276 Tracts of woodland never yet cleared, but kept inclosed for a supply of fuel and timber. 1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller I. ii. iv. 214 A hunting-seat of Queen Elizabeth,..when the neighbourhood was all woodland. 1867 ‘Ouida’ Cecil Castlemaine's Gage 6 The morning was fair and cloudless, its sunbeams piercing through the darkest glades in the woodlands. b. attributive. Of or pertaining to woodland; used, situated, dwelling, or growing in woodland; consisting of or containing woodland; belonging to or characteristic of woodland; sylvan. woodland caribou n. a northern caribou, Rangifer tarandus, found in forested areas of Canada. †woodland penny, woodland silver = wood-penny n., wood-silver n. at wood n.1 Compounds 2a. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > payment or service to feudal superior > [noun] > money payment in lieu of produce sheep-silver?12.. wood-silverc1245 wood-penny1261 woodland penny1351 cow-whit1508 wether-silver1557 sheep-moneya1618 veal money1672 wood-rent1774 the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [adjective] > wooded woodland1351 woody1382 well-woodeda1552 well-timbered1567 wooded1605 nemorous1623 arboreous1664 sylvan1667 timbered1701 wood-bound1710 wood-hung1747 forested1796 wooden1816 clumped1819 clumpy1832 tree-clad1836 loggy1851 treey1852 treeful1855 treed1860 groved1876 woodlanded1945 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > types of deer > [noun] > genus Rangifer (reindeer) reindeerc1440 rein1555 tarand1572 buff1607 caribou1609 maccarib1672 bucka1674 woodland caribou1854 1351–2 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 552 7li. 3s. 1d. de Wodeladpenys ad festum Nat. beati Joh. Bap. 1396–7 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 136 Ep'o pro Wodlandsilver, 6d. 1536–7 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1901) III. 674 Pro Wodland pennez ejusdem ville. ?1537 R. Benese Bk. Measurynge Lande sig. Aij Two maner of perches, the woodlande perche and the fyldeland perche... The woodlande perche is communely .xviii. foote in length. But in some places it is longer. 1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. iii. xii. f. 111v/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I Adders..are found only in our woodland countryes and highest groundes. 1610 A. Hopton Baculum Geodæticum vi. lii. 264 The woodland measure of 18 feete in the pole. a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) iv. v. 47 I am a woodland fellow sir, that alwaies loued a great fire. View more context for this quotation 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 146 Adore the Woodland Pow'rs with Pray'r. View more context for this quotation 1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey II. ix. 178 Rows'd by the woodland nymphs..The mountain goats came bounding o'er the lawn. 1798 W. Wordsworth Tables Turned in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 187 Come, hear the woodland linnet. 1798 W. Wordsworth We are Seven in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 110 She had a rustic, woodland air. 1805 W. Scott Lay of Last Minstrel iii. xiii. 74 They came to a woodland brook. 1831 W. Scott Quentin Durward (new ed.) I. Introd. p. xviii In the more woodland districts of Flanders. 1854 M. Reid Young Voyageurs 154 He had killed three caribou, of the large variety known as ‘woodland caribou’. 1855 C. Kingsley Westward Ho! xxv Garments..rather the worse for a fortnight's woodland travel. 1855 Ld. Tennyson Maud xii. ii, in Maud & Other Poems 41 Gathering woodland lilies. 1877 W. Black Green Pastures & Piccadilly I. i. 18 The secrecy and silence of the still woodland ways. 1879 Cassell's Nat. Hist. III. 68 The Woodland Caribou and the Barren-ground Caribou are the names given to a larger and a smaller breed in Canada. 1902 C. J. Cornish Naturalist on Thames 76 The [grey] partridge is becoming a woodland bird. 1921 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 30 Oct. 21/1 The only caribou I've ever hunted were in the Kootenays, woodland caribou. 1965 F. Symington Tuktu 44 The woodland caribou eats about the same forage as the barren-ground caribou. 2. Archaeology. (With capital initial.) The name of a culture that existed in eastern North America between approximately 1000 b.c. and a.d. 1000, characterized by agriculture, hunting, burial mounds, and a distinctive style of pottery. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > a civilization or culture > [noun] > specific North American culture woodland1917 Anasazi1936 Mogollon1936 Palaeo-Indian1940 old ones1963 Hohokam- 1917 C. Wissler Amer. Indian xiv. 219 We now come to the so-called Eastern Woodland area, the characterization of which is difficult. 1946 Nature 2 Nov. 615/2 A single mound-group belongs to a later phase, the Middle Mississippi, and the village site and one mound are ascribed to the Woodland-culture pattern, probably still later. 1967 Listener 2 Mar. 290/2 Most of the characteristic traits of the late, i.e., the Woodland, period are found in incipient form in the late Archaic, and it is a period about which it is difficult to generalize. 1977 G. Clark World Prehist. (ed. 3) ix. 408 Hunting and fishing continued to play significant roles..even during the terminal phase of the Woodland culture ( a.d. 900–1300). Derivatives ˈwoodlanded adj. covered with woodland. ΘΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [adjective] > wooded woodland1351 woody1382 well-woodeda1552 well-timbered1567 wooded1605 nemorous1623 arboreous1664 sylvan1667 timbered1701 wood-bound1710 wood-hung1747 forested1796 wooden1816 clumped1819 clumpy1832 tree-clad1836 loggy1851 treey1852 treeful1855 treed1860 groved1876 woodlanded1945 1945 J. Betjeman New Bats in Old Belfries 6 By roads ‘not adopted’, by woodlanded ways She drove to the club in the late summer haze. ˈwoodlander n. an inhabitant of the woodland; occasionally an animal that lives in woodland; also, a plant whose natural habitat is in woodland. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by habitat or distribution > [noun] > that grows in woodland cocklebell?a1450 woodlander1774 wood-plant1908 the world > animals > by habitat > [noun] > terrestrial animal > in woods or forests sylvan1612 forester1712 woodlander1774 scrubber1859 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > [noun] > dweller in forest or wood forester1513 forestress1513 sylvan1589 woodlander1774 pinelander1838 1774 T. West Antiq. Furness (1805) 40 The woodlanders of High Furness were charged with the care of the flocks and herds. 1810 W. Wordsworth Prose Wks. (1876) II. 259 A few vassals following the employment of shepherds or woodlanders. 1887 Hardy (title) The Woodlanders. 1889 F. A. Knight By Leafy Ways 61 Another much calumniated woodlander, the badger. 1948 W. Arnold-Forster Shrubs for Milder Counties iv. 113 D[aphne] Blagayana. A dwarf woodlander, evergreen. 1974 Country Life 12 Dec. 1896/1 American woodlanders, such as shortias and erythroniums revel in it [sc beech leaf-mould]. 1982 Garden (Royal Hort. Soc.) 107 487/2 All [clintonias] are woodlanders or shade plants. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.869 |
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