单词 | dildo pear tree |
释义 | > as lemmasdildo pear tree Any of various tall, column-like cacti of (or formerly included in) the genus Cereus, found in South America, the Galapagos Islands, and the Caribbean, and typically having edible red or yellow fruit with small black seeds and white flesh. Frequently attributive, as dildo bush, dildo pear tree, dildo tree, etc. Cf. Cereus n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cactus and allies > [noun] > torch-thistle torch1597 dildo1672 torch-plant1696 Cereus1731 torch-thistle1731 1672 W. Hughes Amer. Physitian 43 The Tree was long since called by the Spaniards, and by the Negroes that lived there, the Dildoe-Tree; and the English retain the same name still. 1696 Philos. Trans. 1695–7 (Royal Soc.) 19 296 The Dildoe-tree is the same with the Cereus or Torch-Plant. 1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World iv. 81 Barren Islands without any Tree, only some Dildo-bushes growing on them. 1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World v. 101 The Dildoe-tree is a green prickly shrub, that grows about 10 or 12 foot high, without either Leaf or Fruit. It is as big as a mans Leg, from the root to the top, and it is full of sharp prickles, growing in thick rows. 1700 W. King Transactioneer i. 11 The Toddy-Tree, the Sower-sop, the Bonavists, and the Dildoe. 1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. ii. 238 The larger erect Indian Fig, or Dildo Pear Tree. 1878 Christian Monitor Sept. 387/1 Near Kingston, wild tamarind, cashew, custard apple, lignum vitae, immense ‘dildoe’ cactus, and ackkie trees and shrubs were seen. 1890 Timehri 4 223 The native Indians who possessed neither candles nor lamps, and who only knew of torches made either of some light wood or of the fibrous interior of the Dildo cactus. 1926 W. Fawcett & A. B. Rendle Flora Jamaica V. 279 C[ereus] peruvianus... Dildo. Dry parts of Jamaica on southern side. 1956 J. Hearne Stranger at Gate xix. 156 It's like getting a dildo thorn out of your foot. 2010 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 27 Feb. 15 It has the most rugged terrain of the three islands and an abundance of wildlife and native plants, including one known as the dildo cactus. < as lemmas |
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