| 单词 | peppercorn tree |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspeppercorn tree 3. Australian. In full peppercorn tree. The California pepper tree, Schinus molle. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular tree or plant yielding useful gum or resin > [noun] > of South America or West Indies > Peruvian mastic tree pepper tree1563 molle1581 Indian mastic1640 pepper1889 peppercorn shrub1901 peppercorn1954 1954 Coast to Coast 1953–4 76 Who do you think we see sittin' under a pepper-corn tree but this old sundowner. 1984 Sun (Sydney) 2 Oct. 18/2 If the meat has a scented taste, most probably the lambs were eating peppercorns, which are grown as shade trees on many western properties. 1996 S. Woolfe Leaning towards Infinity (1998) 78 This inevitability I now saw we were racing towards, the betrayal under the peppercorn trees. < as lemmas |
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