Sugar bushとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From sugar +‎ bush.

名詞

sugar bush (plural sugar bushes)

1. An evergreen shrub found in the southwestern United States of America, Rhus ovata.
2. (Canada, US) A wooded area with sugar maples or other trees tapped for sugaring.

   Alternative form: sugarbush

   • 1851, Executive Documents, v 1, n 1, Washington DC: United States Senate, p 93:

     The lake abounds with the choicest species of fish, and in the vicinity are found sugar bushes and rice fields.

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参考

語源

From sugar +‎ bush, in reference to the sugary maple sap.

名詞

sugarbush (plural sugarbushes)

1. (Canada, US) A wooded area with sugar maples or other trees tapped for sugaring.

   Alternative form: sugar bush

   Meronyms: sugarhouse, sugar shack

   Many a small family farm in Vermont had a sugarbush back in the day.

   In some 21st-century sugarbushes, plastic tubing conveys the sap to the sugarhouse.

   • 1999, U.S. Congress, NOx State Implementation Plans: hearing before the Subcommittee on Clean Air, Wetlands, Private Property, and Nuclear Safety [1]

     Indeed, acid rain has long been pointed to as the culprit in the diminished productivity and value of northern Maine and Vermont sugarbush (maple syrup producing trees).

   • 2001, Howard Paap, Northern Land: Life with the Ojibwe [2]

     The labor I offer in my friends' sugarbush is strenuous, but it brings a welcome fatigue.

   • 2006, Elaine Elliot, Maple Syrup [3]

     Then rough lean-tos and later huts were constructed near the sugarbush to offer some protection to the syrup and the boiler.

2. Protea repens (common sugarbush)
3. Protea spp.

派生語

参考

• maple syrup
• wood lot

参照

• “sugarbush”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.