单词 | forastero |
释义 | forasteron. Any of a group of varieties of the cacao tree, Theobroma cacao. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > edible pods, seeds, leaves, or flowers > [noun] > cocoa-bean > cocoa plant cacao1604 cacao tree1640 cocoa1670 chocolate1688 chocolate tree1688 cocoa tree1698 Theobroma1760 cacao bush1839 forastero1858 criollo1955 1858 L. A. A. de Verteuil Trinidad vii. 262 The cacao forastero is hardier, more robust, and yields more abundantly. 1908 H. H. Smith Cacao Planting 39 Strong growing forastero or calabicillo, bearing the finest criollo beans. 1929 Encycl. Brit. V. 947/1 The finest type of bean the criollo, is grown in Venezuela, Ceylon, Java, Samoa, Madagascar and Nicaragua; but in Ceylon, and other places, criollo is being replaced by forastero. 1953 E. M. Chatt Cocoa ii. 16 Criollo means ‘native’ and Forastero ‘foreign’. The contradistinction arose in Venezuela after the introduction of cacao trees from the West Indies, when the terms were used to denote the local and imported kinds of cacao. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1858 |
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