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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