英语词汇loblolly pine的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

loblolly pine. Loblolly is first recorded in 1597 in Gerarde’s Herbal as a thick gruel or stew. It is probably an onomatopoeic word, one writer noting that “it describes a semi-liquid state” and “itself shakes in pronunciation like jelly, which is most nearly what it describes.” In America settlers began to apply loblolly to miry muddy places and called Pinus taeda, a long- leaved southern pine, the loblolly pine because it commonly grew in such swampy places. The name is first recorded in about 1730. There is also a loblolly bay (Gorclonia lasianthus) and in 19th-century America a mudhole was humorously called a loblolly.

词汇	loblolly pine
词源	loblolly pine. Loblolly is first recorded in 1597 in Gerarde’s Herbal as a thick gruel or stew. It is probably an onomatopoeic word, one writer noting that “it describes a semi-liquid state” and “itself shakes in pronunciation like jelly, which is most nearly what it describes.” In America settlers began to apply loblolly to miry muddy places and called Pinus taeda, a long- leaved southern pine, the loblolly pine because it commonly grew in such swampy places. The name is first recorded in about 1730. There is also a loblolly bay (Gorclonia lasianthus) and in 19th-century America a mudhole was humorously called a loblolly.
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