单词 | nogal |
释义 | nogaln. U.S. Any of several walnut trees of the south-western U.S., Mexico, and the West Indies, esp. Juglans microcarpa and J. major. Also (occasionally): a hickory or pecan tree. ΚΠ 1869 J. R. Browne Adventures Apache Country 262 We returned to our pleasant camping-place under the wide-spreading nogales, or walnut-trees. 1904 E. O. Wooton Native & Ornamental Plants of New Mexico 20 The Walnut or Nogal (Juglans rupestris) is a native tree which deserves more attention in this region. 1948 Bot. Gaz. 109 254 Since the walnuts generally are recognized as hay-fever trees, the walnut (nogal, palo de nuez), Juglans jamaicensis C., may be of local consequence. 1970 D. S. Correll et al. Man. Vascular Plants Texas 458 Carya myristicaeformis... Nutmeg hickory, nogal. 1993 S. Benítez Place where Sea Remembers iii. 21 Remedios opens her eyes to a magpie perched on a bottom branch of the nogal. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). nogaladv. South African colloquial. What is more; into the bargain; moreover, besides.Used esp. at the end of a sentence or clause to indicate that the information just given is important or noteworthy (unlike its use in Afrikaans where it is a premodifier to an adjective). ΚΠ 1963 M. Kavanagh We Merry Peasants 18 Two cocks and three hens, laying hens nogal, man. 1978 TV Times (S. Afr.) 19 Mar. 8 Kojak can do it [i.e. strike a match with one hand] with a lollipop in the other hand, nog al. 1983 City Press (Johannesburg) 6 Nov. 7 It was a Wednesday nogal and he was really under the weather. 2014 K. L. Seegers tr. D. Meyer Cobra ii. 9 ‘She's very clever.’ ‘I would say so. Medical doctor nogal.’ This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1869adv.1963 |
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