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单词 honey-blob
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honey-blob
honey-blob n. (also hinny-blob) originally Scottish Obsolete a gooseberry, esp. one of a sweet yellow variety; cf. blob n.1 3b.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > edible berries > gooseberry
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pearl gooseberry1688
wineberry1703
dayberry1736
honey-blob1746
blobc1750
groset1786
goosegog1823
Worcesterberry1923
golden berry1930
1746 H. Walpole Lett. (1820) I. 144 He stopped..to buy honey-blobs, as the Scotch call gooseberries.
1854 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes I. xxiii. 222 Confessing..that she preferred it to the rasps and hinnyblobs in her grandmamma's garden.
1898 A. M. Earle Home Life Colonial Days (1899) xvii. 422 At the lower ends of the flower borders were rows of ‘honey-blob’ gooseberries.
1901 A. M. Earle Old Time Gardens 338 There were rows of bushes of golden ‘Honey-blob’ Gooseberries.
extracted from honeyn.adj.
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