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单词 grey plum
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grey plum
grey plum n. any of several trees yielding a somewhat plum-like fruit; spec. (a) a large tropical African tree, Parinari excelsa (family Chrysobalanaceae); (b) any of several Australian trees of the genus Diospyros (family Ebenaceae), which incorporates the former genus Cargillia; (also) the fruit of any of these trees.
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1825 A. P. de Candolle Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis II. 527 Anglicè dictus Rough-Skinned seu Gray Plum.
1840 C. McIntosh Greenhouse, Hot House & Stove (new ed.) 378 The rough-skinned or grey plum... much esteemed by the natives.
1862 Sydney Morning Herald 11 July 5/4 A species of Cargillia (probably Laxa), or grey plum of the same district [sc. Illawarrra].
1902 G. S. Boulger Wood 251 Myrtle, Black..Cargillia pentamera... North-east Australia. Known also as ‘Grey Plum’.
1947 Jrnl. Ecol. 34 65 In both these forests Cynometra is replaced as climax dominant by the so-called grey plum.
2006 G. J. Harden et al. Rainforest Trees & Shrubs 160 Diospyros pentamera... Myrtle Ebony, Grey Persimmon, Grey Plum.
2011 D. Peterson Moral Lives Animals viii. 160 Chimps living in the Taï Forest of Ivory Coast traditionally crack open and eat the nuts of African walnut, gray plum, and Panda oleosa.
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