| 单词 | maroon-nut |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmaroon-nut ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > edible nuts or nut-trees > [noun] > chestnut chesteine1362 castanea1398 chestnut1519 Sardian acorn1551 maroon1594 sweet chestnut1818 marron1877 Sardinian acorn1895 1594 R. Ashley tr. L. le Roy Interchangeable Course iii. f. 28 Dates, chestnuts, and marrons. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 525 Such plots of ground as do affoord coppises of Chest-nut trees, are stored with plants comming of marrons or nut-kernels. 1612 Mr. King tr. Benvenuto Passenger i. ii. 183 If they be marones [It. mareni] or great Chest-nuts, they would be the better. 1699 J. Evelyn Acetaria App. sig. P8 Roasted Maroons, Pistachios, Pine-Kernels [etc.]. 1742 W. Ellis Timber-tree Improved (ed. 3) II. xxiii. 135 Such [chestnuts] as spring from the Nuts and Marrons are best of all. 1866 P. T. Barnum Humbugs of World xxx. 246 He..grew up..living upon the hard Tuscan fare of maccaroni and maroon-nuts, with a cutlet of lean mutton once a day. < as lemmas |
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