| 释义 |
ˈivy-ˌberry
Also ivenberry.
a. The fruit or seed of the ivy.
c1400Mandeville (1839) xv. 168 It [a tree] is alle grene as it were Ivy Beryes. 1483Cath. Angl. 199/1 An Iven bery, cornubus. 1530Palsgr. 235/1 Ivy berry, grayne de hierre. 1634Milton Comus 55 His clustering locks, With ivy-berries wreathed. 1971Country Life 25 Mar. 667/3 The woodpigeons..had been on the ivy berries and the clover fields.
b. U.S. The wintergreen or checkerberry, Gaultheria procumbens.
1840Southern Lit. Messenger VI. 518/2 There were the fringed polygula, the buttercup, wild geranium, bunch⁓plum, ivy-berry. 1892Jrnl. Amer. Folk-Lore V. 100 Gaultheria procumbens, ivy-berry. |