| 单词 | exotic fruit | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasexotic fruit   exotic fruit  n. any edible fruit regarded as exotic, esp. in origin, taste, or appearance; frequently as a mass noun; cf. tropical fruit n. at tropical adj. and n. Compounds. ΚΠ 1633    T. Johnson Gerard's Herball 		(new ed.)	 App. xviii. 1610  				I more diligently considering this Exoticke fruit [sc. the Cloue-berry Tree], finde some prime notes which do much moue me..to iudge it the Garyophyllon of Pliny. 1756    Connoisseur 9 Sept. 826  				My lord thinks himself an excellent œconomist, by having reduced the expence of the Hot-House to a thousand per ann. which perhaps the admirers of exotic fruits will not think dear, since we have pine-apples as plenty as golden-pippins. 1819    H. Busk Banquet  iii. 147  				Lock'd in my serres, from hail-engendering blast, Exotic fruits from spring to spring shall last. 1915    Harper's Mag. Aug. 438/1  				Children who see a certain exotic fruit for the first time, have been known to christen it an ‘orange-apple’. 1989    R. W. Burchfield in  Eng. Today Jan. 36/1  				The province's ability to produce exotic fruit was underlined by the frequency of references to kiwifruit, tangelos, babacos, nashis, and others. 2009    Times 		(Nexis)	 16 Apr. 29  				Food plays a big part, with street vendors peddling satay sticks.., and bags of fresh exotic fruits including rambutans, papaya and mangoes. < as lemmas  | 
	
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