| 释义 |
fei|ˈfeiɪ|
[Tahitian vernacular name of the plant and fruit.]
A type of plantain, Musa fehi, native of Tahiti and New Caledonia.
1829W. Ellis Polynesian Researches I. xiii. 374 In several of these islands, the fei is the principal support of the inhabitants. The plantain is a fruit that is always acceptable. 1894Stevenson & Osbourne Ebb-Tide i. ii, Five Kanakas..were squatted round a basin of fried feis. 1926Univ. Calif. Pub. Bot. XII. 156 The Fe'i are of the greatest interest ethnobotanically. 1959Tindale & Lindsay Rangatira i. 13 The big red-gold fei plantains grew sparsely on the slopes of the central mountain. |