| 单词 | mother clove | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasmother clove   mother clove  n. the fruit of the clove tree,  Syzygium aromaticum, resembling a clove in appearance when dried, but less aromatic. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > medicinal and culinary plants > medicinal and culinary plant or part of plant > 			[noun]		 > clove-tree or bud(s) clove1594 mother clove1690 mother of cloves1728 1690    S. Blankaart Lexicon Novum Medicum 41  				Anthophylli... Angl. Mother cloves. 1693    Philos. Trans. 		(Royal Soc.)	 17 952  				I chose some of the largest Cloves I could find, called Mother-Cloves. 1861    R. Bentley Man. Bot.  ii. iii. 553  				The dried unripe fruits are called mother cloves; they are used in China and other countries as a spice. 1929    H. A. A. Nicholls  & J. H. Holland Text-bk. Trop. Agric. 		(ed. 2)	 viii. 279  				The ovaries covered with the lower part of the calyx then swell and form the fruit, which is a large ovoid purple berry, containing one or two seeds, and known as the ‘mother clove’. 1959    Chambers's Encycl. III. 667/1  				If pollination and fertilization take place, the ovary [of the clove tree] develops into a juicy, purple berry called the ‘mother clove’. < as lemmas  | 
	
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