英语词汇boojum tree的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

boojum tree. Perhaps the only tree to be named after a fic- tional character. This deciduous tree (Idria columnaris) of Baja, California, with a thick, tapering trunk and spiny branches, has since about 1960 been popularly named for the imaginary character the boojum in Lewis Carroll’s nonsense poem The Hunting of the Snark (1867). In fact, Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) insisted that his poem “sprang from one line of verse—one solitary line—‘For the Snark was a Boojum, you see,’ ” which came to him while he was out walking one day. Asked what the poem meant, he replied, “I have but one an- swer, ‘I don’t know.’ ” See chortle; sequoia.

词汇	boojum tree
词源	boojum tree. Perhaps the only tree to be named after a fic- tional character. This deciduous tree (Idria columnaris) of Baja, California, with a thick, tapering trunk and spiny branches, has since about 1960 been popularly named for the imaginary character the boojum in Lewis Carroll’s nonsense poem The Hunting of the Snark (1867). In fact, Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) insisted that his poem “sprang from one line of verse—one solitary line—‘For the Snark was a Boojum, you see,’ ” which came to him while he was out walking one day. Asked what the poem meant, he replied, “I have but one an- swer, ‘I don’t know.’ ” See chortle; sequoia.
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