单词 | dog-cherry |
释义 | > as lemmasdog-cherry dog-cherry n. now rare the cherry-like fruit of any of various plants considered unfit or unpleasant to eat, esp. (in early use) that of the honeysuckle, Lonicera periclymenum, and (later) the dogwood, genus Cornus; (also) any of these plants; cf. dogberry n.1 2b. ΚΠ 1597 J. Gerard Herball iii. vii. 1113 Vpright Woodbinde or Honisuckle is called Periclymenum..: in high Dutch, Honds kirsen, that is to say, Canum cerasa, or Dog Cherries. 1745 R. James Medicinal Dict. II Canum cerasa, Dog-cherries. A Species of Periclymenum, the same as Xylosteum. 1837 H. Murray et al. Encycl. Geogr. (rev. ed.) II. i. xvi. 151 The Mahaleb Cherry... The fruit, which is bitter, and called by the Tartars Dog cherry, is the principal ingredient employed for preparing ratafia and cherry brandy. 1863 R. C. A. Prior On Pop. Names Brit. Plants 68 Dogberry or Dog-cherry, the fruit of the Dogwood tree, misunderstood as referring to the quadruped. 1933 Amer. Botanist 39 65 The original ‘dogwood’ was probably Cornus sanguinea... The plant is also called ‘dog-cherry’, ‘dog-berry’, and ‘houndsberry-tree’. < as lemmas |
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