| 词汇 | buckeye state |
| 词源 | Buckeye State. A nickname for Ohio, after the buckeye tree (see buckeye). Like Virginia, Ohio has also been called the Mother of Presidents (Presidents Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Ben- jamin Harrison, McKinley, Taft, and Harding all hailed from Ohio). In the early 1800s Ohio was called the Yankee State be- cause so many of its settlers were from New England. |
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