| 单词 | cherokee plum |
| 释义 | > as lemmasCherokee plum Cherokee plum n. the Chickasaw plum, Prunus angustifolia. ΚΠ ?a1775 W. Bartram Trav. Georgia & Florida in Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. (1943) 33 142/2 The Chicasaw & Cheroke Plumbs are a delicious & excellent fruit. 1786 G. Washington Diaries III. 32 Hoed the ground behind the garden again and planted therein, in three rows, 177 of the wild, or Cherokee plumb. 1842 J. S. Buckingham Slave States Amer. I. xxxv. 543 The Cherokee plum, small, light, red, and of a fleshy pulp, is also abundant here, but the taste was more bitter than sweet. 1927 Ames (Iowa) Daily Tribune 12 Mar. 4/3 The Cherokee plum was in bloom on the 20th of January. 2013 S. S. Parrish in R. Beverley Hist. Virginia (new ed.) 290 The native cherries to which Beverley refers were most likely varieties of plum, as in the Indian cherry, now known as the Chickasaw or Cherokee plum (Prunus angustifolia). < as lemmas |
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