| 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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