| 单词 | coffee-nut |
| 释义 | > as lemmascoffee-nut coffee-nut n. (a) the coffee-tree, Gymnocladus canadensis; (b) the fruit of Gymnocladus canadensis, the Kentucky Coffee-tree, used by early settlers as a substitute for coffee. ΚΠ 1815 D. Drake Nat. & Statist. View Cincinnati ii. 82 The most valuable timber trees are the..coffee nut and beech. 1817 S. R. Brown Western Gazetteer 25 Sugar maple,..Coffee--nut tree, and Sycamore, are found in their congenial soils. 1827 B. Drake & E. C. Mansfield Cincinnati i. 9 Among the forest trees, may be enumerated the..coffee nut. 1876 Field & Forest 2 27 The Coffee-Nut and Buckeye are both scarcer and more local. 1883 E. Eggleston Hoosier School-boy ix. 65 It might be coffee-nuts which would explode harmlessly. < as lemmas |
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