单词 | nut season |
释义 | > as lemmasnut season nut season n. ΚΠ 1765 Museum Rusticum 3 285 In the nut season fences are pulled in pieces for the fruit by all the boys and girls in the neighbourhood. 1897 Harper's Mag. Feb. 485/2 They have as competitors a lot of boys who swarm under the trees in the nut season. 1907 N. Love Life & Adventures ‘Deadwood Dick’ v. 35 During the nut season we worked every day from morning to night, gathering large quantities of nuts. 1999 B. Chalfin in D. B. Small & N. Tannenbaum At Interface viii. 142 Nuts became available for credit very early and very late in the nut season, two periods when people were least likely to engage in butter production. 2012 C. Boesch Wild Cultures iii. 48 During the nut season, chimpanzees crack an average of 2 nuts per minute, for an average period of 2 hours and 15 minutes per day. < as lemmas |
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