单词 | lingonberry |
释义 | lingonberryn. Chiefly North American. A low-growing shrubby plant of far north temperate regions, Vaccinium vitis-idaea, with varieties native to northern Eurasia and North America. Also: the fruit of this plant, a tart red berry similar to a cranberry, typically eaten cooked in pies or used for making jams, jellies, and sauces.The North American lingonberry (also called mountain cranberry) has smaller leaves than the Eurasian plant, and is sometimes considered to be a distinct subspecies or classified as a separate species, Vaccinium minus. Other names for the Eurasian lingonberry include cowberry and red whortleberry. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > edible berries > cranberry fen-berry1578 fen whort1578 marish whort1578 bearberry1651 mossberry1670 bog berry1760 lingonberry1866 dingleberry1923 1789 M. Consett Tour Sweden 78 The Lingon, a fruit not unlike a Cranbury, but as large again,..generally used in Sweden to roast beef.] 1866 M. Howitt Twelve Months Frederika Bremer II. xiv. 287 Ripe red lingonberries..were discovered in warm, rocky nooks. 1908 Iowa City Citizen 21 Dec. 7/1 (advt.) Our lingonberries are excellent for pies. 1960 J. J. Rowlands Spindrift 161 This berry [sc. mountain cranberry] is probably close to the lingonberry of Scandinavian countries. 1970 Beaver Winter 23 Wild cranberries..are also known as lingenberries. 2009 ‘R. Keeland’ tr. S. Larsson Girl who kicked Hornets' Nest vi. 112 He wished Sandberg had ordered Swedish meatballs with mashed potatoes and lingonberries. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1866 |
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