| 单词 | apple of paradise |
| 释义 | > as lemmasapple of paradise apple of paradise n. †(a) a kind of apple; = apple-john n. (obsolete); (b) the fruit of any of several plants of the genus Musa, esp. the plantain, M. x paradisiaca (now historical). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > tropical exotic fruit > banana > types of apple of paradise1572 plantain1582 Adam's apple1588 plantain1756 ensete1790 fei1829 Abyssinian banana1859 honey banana1877 scarlet banana1885 Canary banana1889 lady's finger banana1893 Gros Michel1913 honey1938 1572 J. Higgins Huloets Dict. (rev. ed.) sig. C1 Apple, called apple Iohn, or Saint Iohns apple, or a sweting, or an apple of paradise. 1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie i. xvi. 17 b Apples of paradice, which they call muses. 1650 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica (ed. 2) vii. i. 292 We reade in Pierius, that an Apple was the Hieroglyphick of love.., and there want not some who have symbolized the Apple of Paradise unto such constructions. 1703 tr. U. Chevreau Hist. World IV. 126 The Fruit of it is called..Muza, that is to say, sweet, by those of Mauritania..; Apples of Paradise by the Cypriots, and Garden Figs by the Portuguese. 1835 T. Wentworth W. India Sketch Bk. (ed. 2) I. xvi. 264 The plantain, if Goropius and others are to be credited, is the apple of Paradise, with the leaves of which Adam manifested his transgression. 1949 H. W. von Loesecke Bananas i. 7 Sixteenth century writers commonly referred to the fruit as ‘apples of paradise’ or ‘Adam's fig,’ from the legend that the banana was the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil of the Garden of Eden. < as lemmas |
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