| 单词 | macca-fat palm |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmacca-fat palm Any of several palms with oily fruits, esp. the macaw palm, Acrocomia aculeata, and the oil palm, Elaeis guineensis (also macca-fat palm); the fruit of such a palm. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > palm trees > [noun] > oil palms macaw1657 groo-groo1796 macaw fat1801 oil palm1850 macca-fat palm1873 babassu1876 oil-berry tree1878 macca1892 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plant, nut, or bean yielding oil > [noun] > trees or shrubs yielding oil > tropical > oil-palms macaw1657 macaw fat1801 oil palm1850 macca-fat palm1873 babassu1876 oil-berry tree1878 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plant, nut, or bean yielding oil > [noun] > trees or shrubs yielding oil > tropical > oil-palms > fruit of macca-fat1873 1873 C. J. G. Rampini Lett. from Jamaica 71 Clumps of wild ginger, Macca-fat palms,—surely the most graceful of all that graceful tribe. 1894 Outing 23 380/2 The oil palm or macca-fat. 1942 Nat. Hist. Notes (Inst. Jamaica) 1 vi. 13 The Jamaica Macca Fat or Gru-gru Palm is now referable to one species, Acrocomia fusiformis. 1950 L. Bennett et al. Anancy Stories & Dial. Verse 24 Anancy goh to Ma Kayke an ax her wat fruit Dora did like bes' of all, an Ma Kayke tell him say Dora did love macka-fat. 1961 F. G. Cassidy Jamaica Talk i. 7 He [sc. Sloane] lays his finger on the two most prominent features of these trees—the fruits (not dates, but a similar nut-like berry with an edible rind, the macca-fat of today) and the thorns. 1972 C. D. Adams Flowering Plants Jamaica 74 A[crocomia] spinosa... Maccafat... Trunk..ringed with stiff dark prickles [etc.]. 1990 H. S. Pariser Jamaica 7 ‘Macca fat’ and ‘prickly pole’ are native island palms: the royal palm is a Cuban import. < as lemmas |
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