单词 | peppercorn bush |
释义 | > as lemmaspeppercorn bush peppercorn bush n. any of several bushes that grow any kind of peppercorns or pepper substitute.Quot 1948 is alluding to a scattering of bushes resembling peppercorn hair (see sense A. 2). ΚΠ 1948 H. V. Morton In Search of S. Afr. viii. 251 The greyish-brown plain..was dotted with small peppercorn bushes like a Hottentot's hair. 1979 P. Bodo Inside Tennis iii. 132 The first court upon which Evonne stroked a tennis ball was a bed of parched red earth surrounded by rusted shells of automobiles and peppercorn bushes. 2011 A. Cottrell & J. McNichols Urban Farm Handbk. viii. 165/2 I grow four kinds of apples, two kinds of cherries, a plum, a white table grape, asparagus, reseeding wild greens, a tea plant, a peppercorn bush. < as lemmas |
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