| 单词 | apple of love |
| 释义 | > as lemmasapple of love apple of love n. now historical the fruit of either of two plants of the genus Solanum, tomato ( S. lycopersicum) and aubergine ( S. melongena); cf. love apple n. ΚΠ 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. lv. 275 Apples of Loue do grow in Spaine, Italie, and such hot countries, from whence my selfe haue receiued seedes for my garden. 1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies iv. xxxi. 294 There is at the Indies any good thing that Spaine brings foorth..as..Becengenes, or apples of love,..vetches, and finally whatsoever groweth heere of any profite. 1781 H. Smythson Compl. Family Physician 768/2 Apples of Love... These large juicy fruits, are not produced on a tree, but on a small low plant. 1950 Progress (Clearfield, Pa.) 27 Jan. 4/1 Europeans called tomatoes ‘apples of love’. 2006 J. A. La Boone Around World of Food xiv. 65 The Spaniards..believed eggplants were a powerful aphrodisiac. They even called them ‘apples of love’. < as lemmas |
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