| 单词 | malagueta pepper |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmalagueta pepper The capsules or pungent seeds of a West African plant, Aframomum melegueta (family Zingiberaceae), formerly much used in Europe as a spice, as a flavouring in wine, etc., and in medicine; also called grains of paradise, Guinea grains. Also: the plant from which this spice is obtained. Now chiefly attributive, esp. in malagueta pepper.Quot. 1931 at β. shows confusion with African pepper, Xylopia aethiopica. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > additive > spice > [noun] > malaguetta pepper grains of Paradise?a1366 malagueta1568 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > medicinal and culinary plants > medicinal and culinary plant or part of plant > [noun] > fruit or seed > grain of paradise grains of Paradise?a1366 amomuma1398 malagueta1568 paradise grains1705 α. β. 1670 J. Ogilby Africa 413 Graines of paradise..which the natives call Mellegette.1670 N. Villaut Relation Coasts Guinee 101 They call not Pepper..Grain, with the Hollanders, but Malaguetta, with us.1705 tr. W. Bosman New Descr. Coast of Guinea xiii. 224 Malaget, otherwise called the Grains of Paradise.1705 tr. W. Bosman New Descr. Coast of Guinea xvi. 305 Malagueta, otherwise called Paradise-Grains or Guinea Pepper.1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Mileguetta, Cardamoms, Grains.1745 Astley's Voy. II. 520 The Malaghetta, Grain, or Pepper Coast.1788 J. Matthews Voy. River Sierra-Leone 58 The Malagato Pepper, or Grains of Paradise.1824 H. E. Lloyd tr. J. B. von Spix & C. F. P. von Martius Trav. Brazil II. iv. ii. 260 Their seasoning is generally a berry of the Malaguetta, a variety of the Capsicum Gutescens.1863 R. F. Burton Wanderings W. Afr. ii. 37 By the Dutch they were called Guinea Grains; by the trade Malaguetta Pepper.1877 R. H. Major Discov. Prince Henry xi. 170 The natives..brought Malaguette pepper in grain and in its pods as it grew.1931 M. Grieve Mod. Herbal II. 628/2 Grains of Paradise, Guinea Grains, Melegueta or Mallaguetta Pepper, from Ampelopsis Grana Paradisi, or Habzeli of Ethiopia... Two kinds of these grains are known in the English markets, one plumper than the other... They resemble Pepper in their effects, but are seldom used except in veterinary practice and to give strength to spirits, wine, beer, and vinegar.1985 J. W. Purseglove Trop. Crops: Monocotyledons (rev. ed.) 520 Aframamom melegueta.., grains of paradise, also known as..Melegueta pepper: it is a West African plant, about 1 m tall, with narrow lanceolate..leaves.1990 D. K. Abbiw Useful Plants Ghana iii. 76 Melegueta has occasionally been found in the Atewa Range Forest Reserve..growing wild at forest edges and in clearings.1991 Yankee Apr. 96/2 2 tablespoons dried chilies, preferably malagueta chilies.1568 T. Hacket tr. A. Thevet New Found Worlde 26v In Ginney the fruit that is most rife and common..is named Maniguetta. < as lemmas |
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