单词 | red pepper tree |
释义 | > as lemmasred pepper tree 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 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > medicinal and culinary plants > medicinal and culinary plant or part of plant > [noun] > peppercorn plant > plant yielding pepper substitute pepper tree1745 pepper elder1774 pepperina1930 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. < as lemmas |
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