单词 | indian orchard |
释义 | > as lemmasIndian orchard Indian orchard n. now historical an orchard grown in a manner traditional among North American Indians, spec. one which comprises ungrafted fruit trees. ΚΠ 1798 C. Williamson Descr. Genesee Country 12 The old Indian orchards had been dressed up and the fruit secured from depredation. 1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 3) Indian orchard, an old orchard of ungrafted apple-trees. 2007 S. S. Gronim Everyday Nature iv. 97 When Smith encountered an abandoned Indian orchard, he noticed that they had planted the trees not in rows as colonists did but irregularly. < as lemmas |
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