| 释义 |
gean Now chiefly Sc.|giːn|
Forms: (6 guyne, 7 guind, 8 guigne, guynne), 8–9 gean, geen, (9 guean).
[a. F. guigne (in the 14th c. spelt guine). Of unknown origin: Sp. has guinda, Pg. ginja of similar meaning.
Some have suggested that the word may be connected with OSl. vis̆nja, Lith. vysna, Romanian viʂină, mod.Gr. βίσινον, and more remotely with OHG. wîhsala (mod.Ger. weichsel), It. visciola; but this is very doubtful.]
The wild cherry (Prunus avium), tree and fruit.
a1533Ld. Berners Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. (1546) C c ij, Whan the guynes come, the season of cheryes is not come. 1653Urquhart Rabelais ii. xxxiv. 221 In the season of cherries and guinds. 1765Earl of Haddington Forest-trees 17 The Black Cherry. This is called the Geen here. 1839Jardine Brit. Birds II. 78 They [missel-thrushes] are remarkably fond of ripe geans. 1882Garden 28 Oct. 382/1 The Gean..grows in rocky, dry woods.
attrib.1793Trans. Soc. Arts (ed. 2) V. 16 Birch, Geen-tree, and Mountain Ash. 1854H. Miller Sch. & Schm. x. (1857) 201 To strip the guean-trees of their wild cherries. |