| 单词 | muse tree |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmuse tree The fruit of a plantain or banana plant; a plant yielding such fruit (also muse tree). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > tropical exotic fruit > banana finger?a1425 muse1578 fig1582 banana1597 adam's figc1602 pisang1662 pisang fig1700 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball vi. xxxviii. 704 Of Musa or Mose tree. The Mose tree leaues be so great and large, that one may easyly wrap a childe..in them. 1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie i. xvi. f. 17 b Apples of paradice, which they call muses [Fr. muses]. 1588 T. Hickock tr. C. Federici Voy. & Trauaile f. 18 Laden with fruite, as with Mouces [It. muse] which we call Adams apples. [margin] The Mowsies is a kind of fruite growing in clusters and are 5 or 6 inches long a peece. c1602 J. Sanderson in S. Purchas Pilgrimes (1625) II. 1617 At Damiatta..are great gardens, full of Adams figs,..these are also called Mouses. < as lemmas |
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