| 单词 | merry-tree |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmerry-tree The gean or wild cherry, Prunus avium (also merry-tree). Also: the small, usually black fruit of this tree. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > stone fruit > cherry > types of cherry black cherry1530 geana1533 Plinian1577 mazzard1578 mazardc1595 merry1595 Flanders cherry1597 heart cherry1599 cherrylet1605 agriot1611 morel1611 cœur-cherry1626 bigarreau1629 May-cherry1629 morello1629 urinal cherry1629 white-heart cherry1629 duracine1655 heart1658 black heart1664 carnation1664 duke1664 honey cherrya1671 nonsuch1674 merise1675 red-hearta1678 prince royal1686 lukeward1707 white-heart1707 May duke1718 Royal Ann1724 ox-heart1731 ratafia1777 choke-cherry1785 mountain cherry1811 rum cherry1818 sour cherry1884 Napoleon1886 Napoleon cherry1933 1595 G. Chapman Ouids Banquet of Sence sig. B2v White and red Iessamines, Merry, Melliphill. 1650 W. How Phytologia Britannica 25 Wild Heart Cherry-tree... The country people there [i.e. in Stockport] call it the Merry-tree. 1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 519 They [sc. cherries] do best grafted on the Black Cherry Stock, or the Merry Stock. 1757 A. Cooper Compl. Distiller iii. lii. 221 The black Cherry, the Merry or Honey Cherry. 1778 G. White Jrnl. 29 July (1970) xi. 154 The fruit of the wild merry-trees..being now ripe, diverts the thrushes etc: from eating the currans. 1822 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 29 June 821 There are not many of the merries, as they call them in Kent and Hampshire. 1893 G. E. Dartnell & E. H. Goddard Gloss. Words Wilts. 102 Merry, the cherry; applied to both black and red varieties, but especially the small semi-wild fruit. 1899 Longman's Mag. Dec. 179 The wild cherry tree, or merry-tree, also known..as the ‘Gean’. 1940 H. J. Massingham Chiltern Country vi. 105 The orchards of ‘merries’ (little black cherries) have been mostly felled. 1988 J. Lavers Dict. Isle of Wight Dial. 55 Merry, the wild cherry (Prunus avium). Probably accounts for Merry Gardens, near Lake. < as lemmas |
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