单词 | guarri |
释义 | guarrin. South African. Any one of several trees or shrubs of the genus Euclea, esp. E. undulata or E. lanceolata; the fruit of these trees or shrubs. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > tropical exotic fruit > other tropical or exotic fruits tamarind1539 guava1555 genipat1568 jack1582 genipap1613 custard apple1648 star apple1693 sweet-sop1696 breadfruit1697 sugar-apple1739 sweet-apple1760 guarri1789 ackee1792 marmalade-box1796 five-corner1826 jakkalsbessie1854 Molucca berry1861 bullock's heart1866 guava-apple1866 vegetable egg1866 Jew plum1880 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 1789 W. Paterson Narr. Four Journeys Country of Hottentots 43 The ground is covered with shrubs about four feet high, called by the natives Guerrie, a species of Royena. 1793 C. R. Hopson tr. C. P. Thunberg Trav. I. 202 The berries of the Guarri bush (Euclea undulata) had a sweet taste, and were eaten by the Hottentots. 1801 J. Barrow Acct. Trav. Interior S. Afr. 1797–8 I. iii. 149 The guerrie bosch, apparently a species of rhus. 1843 J. C. Chase Cape Good Hope ii. 152 The wild fruits, indigenous to the country, are also incredibly numerous... Among these are the wild grape (Vitis Capensis),..quarri (Euclea undulata) [etc.]. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. at Euclea The fruit is globular, fleshy, and juicy, sometimes as large as a cherry. Those of many of the species, known by the colonists as Guarry, are eaten. 1897 S. J. Du Toit Rhodesia 32 Various kinds of sweet grass and small shrubs, varied with very good large bush and trees, as ‘quarri’, &c. 1913 C. Pettman Africanderisms Guarri honey, a very pale honey in much esteem in the Riversdale District, obtained by the bees from Royena sp. Guarri tea, this is made by the Hottentots from the leave of Euclea lanceolata. 1939 tr. E. N. Marais My Friends the Baboons iv. 42 Near the sleeping-place there was, in a corner of the rocks, a large gwarrie-bush. 1966 E. Palmer Plains of Camdeboo xvii. 271 They made vinegar from the little fruits of the gwarri tree. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1789 |
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