单词 | hurtleberry |
释义 | hurtleberryn. a. The fruit of Vaccinium myrtillus, or the shrub itself; the whortleberry or bilberry; also applied to other species of Vaccinium, and to the allied American genus Gaylussacia (huckleberry n.). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > berry > [noun] > bilberry or myrtleberry blackberrylOE myrtlea1400 hurtleberryc1460 myrtle berry?a1500 hurt1542 blaeberry1562 whortleberry1578 bilberry1584 blue1587 hurtle1597 hurtberrya1661 frawn1726 ohelo1825 c1460 J. Russell Bk. Nurture 82 Of Strawberies & hurtil~beryes with the cold Ioncate. 1508 Bk. Keruynge (de Worde) sig. A.ii After mete peres nottes strawberyes, hurtelberyes & harde chese. 1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 61 Ble~berries or hurtel berries. 1634 W. Wood New Englands Prospect i. v. 13 In other seasons there bee Gooseberries, Bilberies,..Hurtleberries, Currants. 1716 B. Church Entertaining Passages Philip's War i. 34 He perceived they were gathering of Hurtle-Berries. 1778 J. Cook Jrnl. 9 Sept. (1967) III. i. 436 The coast..produced berries of several sorts, such as Hurtle-berries, Heath-beries &ca. 1884 Internat. Health Exhib. Official Catal. 157/2 Preserved Lingon, a genus of Hurtleberry found in Sweden. b. Combinations, as hurtleberry-tree. ΚΠ 1589 A. Fleming tr. Virgil Eclogs ii. 5 in A. Fleming tr. Virgil Bucoliks You O baytrees will I crop, and hirtleberrie trees. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.c1460 |
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