单词 | crownberry |
释义 | > as lemmascrownberry 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. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > berry-bush or -tree > [noun] > other berry-bushes and their fruit redcurrant1633 dogberry1688 amelanchier1693 cassioberry1753 crownberry1798 crowberry1866 Portugal crakeberry1866 bead-plant1878 osoberry1884 pearl berry1884 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 132 ‘Crownberry’ 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. < as lemmas |
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