| 单词 | jamaica cob-nut |
| 释义 | > as lemmasJamaica cob-nut b. Applied to foreign nuts; esp. Jamaica cob-nut, the seed of Omphalea diandra; also the tree. Π c1639 T. Dekker & J. Ford Sun's-darling (1656) iii. 21 I sweat like a pamper'd jade of Asia, and drop like a Cob-nut out of Africa. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 812 O. diandra is cultivated in St. Domingo and Jamaica, under the name of Noisettier or Cobnut, from the resemblance of the flavour of the seeds to that of the European nut. < as lemmas |
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