| 单词 | gingerbread tree |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgingerbread tree gingerbread tree n. †(a) = gingerbread plum n. (obsolete); (b) = gingerbread palm n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > tropical or exotic fruit-tree or -plant > African fruit-plants mammee apple1683 num-num1770 guarri1789 pigeon plum1826 gingerbread tree1829 Guinea peach1829 kaffir orange1852 marula1857 kei-apple1859 Natal plum1859 klapper1863 Sierra Leone peach1866 velvet tamarind1866 Dingaan's apricot1868 wild orange1932 1829 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Plants Index 1149/3 Gingerbread-tree. 1896 Sci. Amer. 2 May 275/3 The fibrous, mealy husk..tastes almost exactly like gingerbread, whence the popular name of gingerbread tree in Egypt. 1918 M. S. Briggs Through Egypt in War-time ix. 168 One unusual tree that is found in this oasis is the doum-palm, or gingerbread-tree. 2009 J. Besenyő W. Sahara 11 Almost 75% of the people of the Sahara live in oases, where mostly palm trees (date palm and gingerbread tree), vegetables and many different types of crops are grown. < as lemmas |
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