| 单词 | pixie-pear |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspixie-pear pixie-pear n. English regional (south-western) (a) the fruit of the hawthorn, Crataegus monogyna, a haw; (b) the hip of the dog rose, Rosa canina. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > thorny berry-bush > [noun] > hawthorn and allies > fruit of hawa1000 red haw1717 thornberry1766 peggle1826 pixie-pear1865 1865 Cornhill Mag. July 34 In Dorsetshire he [sc. the peasant] calls haws ‘the pixy-pears’, which..is scientifically true, as the whitethorn and the pear belong to the same order. 1870 F. P. Verney Lettice Lisle x. 117 Allays after them blackberries and pixie-pears. 1886 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names 383 Pixie-pears, fruit of Rosa canina, L.—Dev. 1918 W. de la Mare in Twelve Poets 27 Ruby-ripe to see, the pixy-pears burn on yon hawthorn tree. < as lemmas |
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