| 单词 | fairy eggs |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfairy eggs fairy eggs n. British regional the rounded, sea-dispersed seed of any of several tropical plants, occasionally found on British coasts, esp. that of a leguminous climber, Entada gigas; usually in plural; cf. sea-bean n. 2. ΚΠ 1860 J. F. Campbell Pop. Tales W. Highlands I. Introd. p. ix Fishermen..often find certain hard light floating objects..which they call sea-nuts..and fairy-eggs... Botanists..set themselves to study even fairy-eggs; and believing them to be West Indian seeds, stranded in Europe, they planted them. 1970 J. McPhee Crofter & Laird 145 The large seeds of a treelike West Indian plant called entada scandens have drifted to the shores of Colonsay for thousands of years, and they have always been called fairy eggs. 1998 F. J. Simoons Plants of Life, Plants of Death 443 Because Molluka beans served among superstitious folk in Scotland as amulets and are egg-shaped, the name ‘fairy eggs’ was..applied to them. < as lemmas |
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