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单词 kaffir plum
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kaffir plum
kaffir plum n. a large evergreen tree of southern Africa, Harpephyllum caffrum (family Anacardiaceae), having pinnate leaves with sickle-shaped leaflets and small, red, edible fruits; (also) a fruit of this tree.Now often called wild plum.
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1839 in Extracts Lett. James Backhouse (1841) 89 I visited a steep wood, contiguous to the river, to see the tree known in the colony by the name of ‘Pruin’, or Caffre Plum.
1933 W. H. S. Bell Bygone Days 36 A kafir plum is..chiefly composed of a large stone of nearly an inch in length.
1994 Weekend Post (Port Elizabeth, S. Afr.) 12 Nov. (Leisure) 6 The popular Harpephyllum caffrum (Transkei wild plum), formerly known as kaffir plum.
extracted from Kaffirn.adj.
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