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单词 crownberry
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crownberry
crownberry n. rare (a) a lingonberry or cranberry (rare); (b) the small red berry of a spiny evergreen shrub of South Africa, Dovyalis rhamnoides (family Smilacaceae); (also) the shrub itself;. [In quot. 1798 probably after German regional (Harz) Kronbeere, (more widely) Kronsbeere cranberry (1616) or its etymon German regional (Low German) Kronsbeere (Middle Low German krōnsbeere cranberry n.), with reinterpretation of the first element as German Kron- , combining form of Krone crown n.
No cognate of these words is recorded in Afrikaans; the South African berry is apparently so called with reference to its crown-like calyx; its name in Afrikaans is wynbessie, lit. ‘wineberry’.]
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1798 C. Cruttwell New Universal Gazetteer III. at Wernigerode The mountains afford very valuable plants, with berries of various kinds, particularly crown-berries, of which great quantities are preserved.
1907 T. R. Sim Forests & Forest Flora Cape Good Hope 132Crownberry’ is in use at East London, and may have originated in the crown-like calyx of D[ovyalis] rhamnoides.
1962 J. M. Watt & M. G. Breyer-Brandwijk Med. & Poisonous Plants S. & E. Afr. (ed. 2) 1386/3 Dovyalis rhamnoides...Cape cranberry, Cranberry, Crownberry.
2003 G. Walker Snowball Earth (2004) 215 It is surrounded by the barrens: blasted, treeless heaths covered with mosses, lichens and tart crown berries.
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