| 单词 | pistachio tree | 
| 释义 | > as lemmaspistachio tree  b.  Also  pistachio tree. The tree  Pistacia vera (family  Anacardiaceae), native to western Asia and much cultivated in southern Europe and the United States. Also (chiefly with distinguishing word): any of various other plants of the genus  Pistacia. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > edible nuts or nut-trees > 			[noun]		 > pistachio > pistachio nut tree pistachio tree?1440 pistacia?1440 fistic tree1548 pistacia tree1731 pistacia nut tree1797 α. β. 1664    J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense 82 in  Sylva  				[Plants] to be first set into the Conservatory..Dactyls, Pistacio's, the great Indian Fig.1698    Philos. Trans. 		(Royal Soc.)	 20 466  				A sort of Pistachio-Tree.1745    R. Pococke Descr. East II.  ii. xvii. 163  				The country towards Diarbeck..produces excellent grapes ad wine, and a great number of pistachio trees, which grow wild.a1811    R. Cumberland Confession  i, in  Posthumous Dramatick Wks. 		(1813)	 I. 165  				Paradise,..where he quaffs coffee, that flows by in rivers, under the branches of pistachio trees.1846    D. J. Browne Trees Amer. 179  				The True Pistachio, in favourable situations, attains a height of fifteen or twenty feet.1978    Texas Wildflower Newsletter 2 11  				Pistachia texana, the fabled Texas Pistachio.2001    Furrow Mar. 24/2  				Pistachio trees need more water in hot weather, but they don't like wet feet.δ. 1717    Philos. Trans. 1714–16 		(Royal Soc.)	 29 476  				Thro' the whole Campania of Naples I observ'd the same Vegetables to be larger and more proud than in other parts of Italy, as..the Pistaches, the Oleanders [etc.].1778    G. Baretti Dict. Eng. & Spanish 		(ed. 2)	  				The pistache-tree, alhocigo, arbol.1869    Proc. Royal Geogr. Soc. 14 362  				Of other trees and plants, there are gum copal, squill tree..tangena, pistache.1905    19th Cent. Aug. 269  				The olive, pistache, jujube and plane from Syria.1976    G. Usher Dict. Plants used by Man 465/2  				P[istache] chinensis Bunge, Chinese Pistache.   tr.  Palladius De re Rustica 		(Duke Humfrey)	 		(1896)	  xi. 184 (MED)  				Pistace [L. pistacia] is in this mone Of plauntes sette other of nuttis sowe. < as lemmas | 
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