单词 | custard apple tree |
释义 | > as lemmascustard apple tree 2. In full custard apple tree. The tree or shrub producing such fruit, esp. Annona reticulata (family Annonaceae). The custard apple tree (genus Annona), native to tropical regions, is widely cultivated elsewhere in the world. Asimina triloba is native to eastern North America and has only recently begun to be cultivated for its fruit. ΚΠ 1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 14 High and loftie trees, as the Palmeto,..Custard apple, Gnavers, Macow, Cipres,..these and more may be accounted wood. 1670 S. Clarke True & Faithful Acct. Four Chiefest Plantations Eng. in Amer. 74 (margin) Custard-Apple trees. 1708 J. Oldmixon Brit. Empire in Amer. II. 94 The Custard Apple bears a Fruit as big as the largest Pomewater;..and the Pulp of it is so like a Custard, that thence it took its Name. 1773 W. Hanbury Compl. Body Planting & Gardening I. vii. 91 Annona, The Custard-Apple-Tree. 1819 E. Evans Pedestrious Tour 284 The papaw resembles the locust, or custard apple tree. 1842 Foreign Missionary Chron. May 139/1 Our scanty baggage piled on the shore, and ourselves under the custard apple-trees, standing with upturned faces. 1893 Columbus (Ohio) Hort. Soc. Jrnl. 8 20 The alligator apple is a small tree of the custard apple family. 1913 Wilson Bull. 24 119 About Lake Okeechobee the timber is principally cypress on the east side, with great tangles of the impentrable [sic] custard apples on the south and southwesterly side. 1986 Advertiser (Adelaide) (Nexis) 11 Jan. Young custard-apple trees require frost protection with a shade cloth or hessian enclosure. 2005 C. Tudge Secret Life Trees xiii. 323 As a relative of the custard apple, the Amazonian tree Annona sericea is pretty primitive. < as lemmas |
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