| 单词 | prickly pear cactus |
| 释义 | > as lemmasprickly pear cactus Any of various spiny, sometimes tree-sized, cacti of the genus Opuntia (see Opuntia n.), having jointed stems that typically have flattened oval segments, and which are cultivated in warm countries for their fruit, as hedging, and (formerly) as host plants for the cochineal insect (also prickly pear cactus, prickly pear tree). Also: the pear-shaped fruit of any of these cacti, which is edible in some kinds. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > tropical exotic fruit > prickly pear tuna1555 Opuntia1601 prickled pear1610 prickle pear1610 prickpear1622 prickly pear1696 pear apple1898 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > tropical or exotic fruit-tree or -plant > prickly pear plants tuna1555 Opuntia1601 prickled pear1610 prickle pear1610 prickpear1622 Indian fig1631 prickly pear1696 pimploe1698 pear1805 1696 H. Sloane Catal. Plantarum in Jamaica 194 Opuntia major... The Prickly Pear-tree. In Jamaica & Caribeis insulis ubique..reperitur. 1725 H. Sloane Voy. Islands II. p. vi Tab. VIII Shews..the sort of Prickly Pear, thought in Jamaica to be that particular kind of Opuntia, whereon feeds the small Worm or Beatle, from whence comes in Cochineel. 1739 P. Delegal in Georgia Hist. Soc. Coll. (1840) 1 188 The islands in Georgia are full of the prickly pear shrubs which feed flies. 1775 B. Romans Conc. Nat. Hist. E. & W. Florida App. p. xxxvi Sandy Key is a low key covered with some bushes and prickly-pears. 1834 A. Pike Prose Sketches & Poems 57 Finding some very large, deep purple, prickly pears, Lewis and myself ate of them. 1839 Lett. fr. Madras (1843) 272 Prickly-pear hedges, enclosing black-looking Palmyra-trees. 1877 J. C. Geikie Life & Words Christ I. ii. 19 He will recognize..such fruits as..the lime, the banana, the almond, and the prickly pear. 1917 Nature 20 Sept. 57/2 The prickly pear cactus (Opuntia tuna) has become extensively naturalised [in Hawaii]. 1956 C. Mackenzie Thin Ice iii. 36 We left Tangier about an hour before sunrise, riding through plantations of prickly pear. 1978 G. D. Rowley in V. H. Heywood Flowering Plants of World 65/1 Opuntias (prickly pears) are grown commercially in parts of Mexico and California for their large juicy fruits. 1995 Holiday Which? Sept. 164/1 For dessert try the prickly pears (in season September to November). < as lemmas |
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