单词 | ground-pea |
释义 | ground-pean. = groundnut n. 1, 2. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > edible nuts or nut-trees > [noun] > peanut mani1604 pindar1684 earthnut1714 groundnut1740 ground-pea1796 peanut1802 goober1833 monkey nut1880 1770 W. Watson in Philos. Trans. 1769 (Royal Soc.) 59 379 They..are the produce of a plant..much cultivated in the Southern colonies, and in our American sugar islands, where they are called ground nuts, or ground pease.] 1796 B. Hawkins Let. 2 Dec. in Georgia Hist. Soc. Coll. (1916) IX. 21 They made beans, ground peas, cymblins. 1823 E. James Acct. Exped. Rocky Mts. I. 200 The squaws..are often necessitated to dig the pomme de terre..and to scratch the groundpea. 1854 Florida Plant. Rec. 115 I have picked 80 bushels of ground peas. 1893 Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 6 95 Arachis hypogæa, ground-peas. 1893 Jrnl. Amer. Folk-lore 6 140 Apios tuberosa, ground-pea. 1946 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. v. 24 Ground peas, peanuts. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.1796 |
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