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单词 high-flyer walnut
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high-flyer walnut
7. More fully high-flyer walnut. A variety of walnut ( Juglans regia) originally cultivated in East Anglia and considered to bear excellent fruit. Now historical and rare.The famous thoroughbred stallion Highflyer, mentioned in quot. 18222, was foaled in Suffolk in 1774. He sired a son named Walnut, born in 1786.
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1820 W. Hooker in F. A. Roach Hooker's Finest Fruits 215 (caption to plate) The High flyer Walnut.
1822 Trans. Hort. Soc. London 4 517 George Beauchamp, Esq., sent to the Society specimens of the Highflyer Walnut, grown in the town of Thetford, a variety which appears to have been originally confined to the neighbourhood of that place, and of Bury St. Edmund's.
1822 R. Johnson Turf. Reg. & Sportsman III. 65 (note) Highflyer was so called from his being foaled in a Paddock in which there were many Highflyer Walnut Trees.
1872 Food Jrnl. Oct. 343 There are several varieties of walnuts grown in England, such as the High-flyer, or Thetford nut.
1911 C. Richardson New Bk. Horse 73/2 Highflyer..was so named because of his having been foaled in a paddock in which there were several high-flyer walnut trees.
1925 W. J. Bean Trees & Shrubs Hardy in Brit. Isles (ed. 4) I. 667 Other varieties [of Juglans regia] are cultivated for the qualities of their fruit, such as ‘Highflyer’, ‘Meylanaise’, [etc.].
1989 F. A. Roach Hooker's Finest Fruits 214 The High-flyer was one of the new varieties tried in England as the cultivation of the trees for their nuts became more popular.
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