英语词汇buckeye state的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

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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