| 单词 | medlar tree |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmedlar tree medlar tree n. = sense 2. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > trees or plants bearing stone fruit > medlar tree open-arseOE medle-treec1330 amylliera1400 medlar?1440 mesplierc1480 medlar tree1548 lazarole1668 nespola1875 1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. E.iiijv Mespilus..is called in englishe a medler tree. a1627 T. Middleton Women beware Women iv. ii, in 2 New Playes (1657) 180 He that marries a whore, looks like a fellow bound all his life time to a Medler-tree. 1776 G. White Jrnl. 13 Nov. (1970) ix. 133 The leaves of the medlar-tree are now turned of a bright yellow. 1873 A. I. Thackeray Old Kensington ix. 75 There was a medlar-tree, with one rotten medlar upon a branch. 1989 A. Willan Reader's Digest Compl. Guide Cookery iv. 272 The medlar tree..has a dark brown fruit with an open-petalled cavity. < as lemmas |
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