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单词 callitris
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callitrisn.

Brit. /kəˈlɪtrᵻs/, U.S. /kəˈlɪtrəs/, /ˈkælətrᵻs/
Forms: 1800s– calitris, 1800s– callitris, 1800s– callytris, 1800s– calytris.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin Callitris.
Etymology: < scientific Latin Callitris, genus name ( E. P. Ventenat Decas generum novorum (1808) 10) < ancient Greek καλλι- , combining form of κάλλος beauty (see callisthenic adj.) + τρεῖς three (see three adj.), referring to the arrangement of the leaves in whorls of three.With forms in cali- compare cali- comb. form.
Any of various coniferous trees constituting the Australasian genus Callitris (family Cupressaceae), typically having scale-like leaves; also called cypress pine. Also (in form Callitris): the genus itself.
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red pine1760
callitris1814
Oyster Bay pine1832
cypress pine1847
Murray pine1853
mountain pine1910
1814 R. Brown Gen. Remarks Bot. Terra Australis 42 Callitris of Ventenat is peculiar to Terra Australis, where it exists very generally.
1846 Sydney Morning Herald 8 Dec. 3/2 I saw no callitris (pine of the colonists) in all that country.
1900 Bot. Gaz. 29 336 The method of selection of the megaspore out of a large mass of potentially spore-producing cells, [is] as in Cycas, Callitris, etc.
1963 A. E. Farrell Vengeance 22 Their fringe was dotted with innumerable Callitris pines, quondongs and hardy bastard mulgas and bullocky bush.
2001 J. Wightman in N. C. Habel & S. Wurst Earth Story in Wisdom Trad. 15 This was planted with a number of inland desert species—including senna, callitris, eremophila, grevillea and acacia.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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