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单词 red pepper tree
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red pepper tree
1. Any of several trees or shrubs with pungent fruits; esp. (a) (in full red pepper tree) a bushy capsicum, probably a variety of Capsicum annuum; (b) (more fully Jamaica pepper tree) the pimento or allspice tree, Pimenta dioica (rare); (c) Australian = mountain pepper n. 3. Obsolete.
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1563 J. Ribaut Whole & True Discoverye of Terra Florida sig. Ciiijv We founde there a great number of Pepertrees.
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage v. i. 386 For the pepper-trees, which he saith are great, and abound with apes.
1672 W. Hughes Amer. Physitian 50 Of the red pepper-tree or bush. This tree (or rather bush) groweth..to the height of about four foot... They grow in many plantations in Jamaica... I know no other name it hath then chilli, red pepper, or bastard-pepper.
1691 H. Sloane in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 16 462 (heading) A description of the Pimienta or Jamaica pepper-tree.
1745 P. Thomas True Jrnl. Voy. South-Seas 26 Besides those myrtle trees [on the Juan Fernandez Islands], there are..the pepper tree... The pepper grows on the trees in little bunches.
1797 Monthly Mag. 3 208 The number of nutmeg-trees transplanted from the Indies, is less than even that of the pepper-trees.
1827 H. Hellyer in J. Bischoff Van Diemen's Land (1832) 175 I saw several pepper trees, and procured the berries.
1839 T. L. Mitchell Three Exped. II. xii. 280 We also found the aromatic tea, Tasmania aromatica... The leaves and bark of this tree have a hot biting cinnamon-like taste, on which account it is vulgarly called the pepper-tree.
1888 Proc. Linn. Soc. New S. Wales 3 506 Drimys aromatica... ‘Pepper’ tree.
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