单词 | ribes |
释义 | ribesn.ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Polygonaceae (dock and allies) > [noun] > dock and allies > sorrel > sorrel plants ribes?a1425 sorrels1596 ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 117v Ete he cheches & ribes [?c1425 Paris soure dokkes; L. ribes] to þat þat þe inward þinges be fermed. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > berry > [noun] > currant ribes1526 currant1578 Kalamata1871 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > edible berries > currants > collectively ribes1526 1526 Grete Herball ccccxcv. sig. Cci/1 Ribes ben reed beryes growyng in a lytell smal tre. 1562 W. Turner Bk. Natures Bathes Eng. f. 15v, in 2nd Pt. Herball A littell bread stieped in the juyce of Pomegranates, Berberies, or Ribes. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball 683 In Englishe, Redde Gooseberies..and common Ribes... In English, Blacke Gooseberies, or blacke Ribes. 1620 T. Venner Via Recta vii. 124 Ribes, which with vs are commonly knowen by the name of Red Currants. 1633 T. Johnson Gerard's Herball (new ed.) ii. cccxxi. 871 The small Raisons, or Ribes, which wee call Currans, or small Raisins. 1687 tr. P. Barbette Thes. Chirurgiæ (ed. 4) 354 Fruits, Citrons, Oranges, Walnuts, Figs, sharp Cherries, Pippins, Ribes, sowre Pomegranates, Barberries. 3. Originally: the redcurrant bush or (with distinguishing word) the blackcurrant or whitecurrant bush (now rare). In later use (chiefly Botany): (in form Ribes) a genus of small, often spiny shrubs of the family Grossulariaceae, including species cultivated for their berries (esp. the gooseberry, R. uva-crispa, the redcurrant, R. rubrum, and the blackcurrant, R. nigrum) or for their flowers (esp. the flowering currant, R. sanguineum); (also ribes) a shrub of this genus, esp. one grown for its flowers.Adopted as a genus name by Linnaeus in Genera plantarum (1737). Valid publication: Linnaeus Species plantarum (1753) I. 200. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > tree or plant producing edible berries > currant or gooseberry genus ribes1731 1543 B. Traheron Interpr. Straunge Wordes in tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. sig. &&.vi/1 Serapion sayeth, that ribes is a plante, hauyng great, and grene leaues, redde clusters of swete taste. 1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. H.iiij Rhibes is called..in some places of Englande a Rasin tree. 1657 S. Purchas Theatre Flying-insects i. xv. 94 Bees gather of these flowers following... In April, Ribes, white, red. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. iv. 67/1 The Shrub-Mallow, hath woody branches..with soft woolly whitish green leaves, in fashion like those of the Ribes or Curran tree. 1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I Ribes, the Currant-Tree. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. App. Ribes, in botany, a general name given by Linnæus to the goosberry and currant bushes, which he makes one genus of plants, called by others Grossularia. 1807 J. E. Smith Introd. Physiol. & Systematical Bot. 392 Thus Ribes, the Currant and Gooseberry genus,..stands in the fifth class. 1846 Ld. Cockburn Jrnl. 12 Mar. (1874) 148 The ribes has been in full blossom for a month. 1847 W. Darlington Agric. Bot. 56 Black Ribes. Vulgo—Black Currant. 1873 R. Broughton Nancy I. 97 ‘It is the colour of this,’ pointing to a branch of red rhibes. 1882 Cent. Mag. June 227/1 Even the tops of the mountains are blessed with flowers,—dwarf phlox, polemonium, ribes, hulsea, etc. 1934 C. C. Steele Introd. Plant Biochem. iv. xii. 125 Potassium hydrogen malate has been isolated from stalks of Rhubarb and the fruit of Currants (Ribes). 1979 Countryman Winter 155 There is..lavender and lemon balm,..everlasting peas, and ribes. 2007 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 19 July d9/1 Gooseberries, like currants and jostaberries (a tasty cross between the two), are in the genus Ribes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?a1425 |
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