英语词汇“cockroach apple”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

cockroach apple n. Jamaican (now rare) any of several tropical flowering plants of the genus Solanum, native to South America and the Caribbean, previously believed to repel cockroaches.

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1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. ii. 174 Love Apple, and Cock-roch Apple... The smell of the apples is said to kill the Cock-roches.

1854 M. F. Wilkins Slave Son xii. 164 This gave place to a dense thicket of nux-vomica, palma-christi, the branched calaloo, poisonous shrubs of the cockroach-apple, and many other noxious bushes.

1974 A. D. Hawkes & B. C. Sutton Wild Flowers Jamaica 14 (margin) Solanum ciliatum Solanum Family Cockroach Poison, Cockroach Apple... Locally they are broken open and placed in closets, clothes presses, etc., where they supposedly either drive off or kill cockroaches.

单词	cockroach apple
释义	> as lemmas cockroach apple cockroach apple n. Jamaican (now rare) any of several tropical flowering plants of the genus Solanum, native to South America and the Caribbean, previously believed to repel cockroaches. ΚΠ 1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. ii. 174 Love Apple, and Cock-roch Apple... The smell of the apples is said to kill the Cock-roches. 1854 M. F. Wilkins Slave Son xii. 164 This gave place to a dense thicket of nux-vomica, palma-christi, the branched calaloo, poisonous shrubs of the cockroach-apple, and many other noxious bushes. 1974 A. D. Hawkes & B. C. Sutton Wild Flowers Jamaica 14 (margin) Solanum ciliatum Solanum Family Cockroach Poison, Cockroach Apple... Locally they are broken open and placed in closets, clothes presses, etc., where they supposedly either drive off or kill cockroaches. extracted from cockroachn. < as lemmas
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