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单词 rubus
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rubusn.

Brit. /ˈruːbəs/, U.S. /ˈrubəs/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin; modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymon: Latin rubus.
Etymology: < classical Latin rubus bramble, probably < the same base as ruber red (see red adj.), with reference to the colour of the unripe fruit. In later use after scientific Latin Rubus, genus name.
Any of numerous flowering plants which constitute the large cosmopolitan genus Rubus (family Rosaceae), the members of which typically have woody, often prickly stems, produce sweet edible berries in the form of aggregate fruits, and include the raspberry and blackberry. Also (in form Rubus): the genus itself.The raspberry and blackberry are cultivated in many varieties and hybrids.Valid publication of the genus name: Linnaeus Species plantarum (1753) I. 492.
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a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. cxl. 1037 And þis rubus is yweye with spray and is ful of prikkes from þe roote vp to þe top.
?1541 R. Copland Galen's Fourth Bk. Terapeutyke sig. Hii, in Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens Some decoction of tarte thynges, as decoction of quinces, of lentister, or of the hyghest boughes of rubus, or of vynes burgeons, or grene myrtylles.
1582 S. Batman Vppon Bartholome, De Proprietatibus Rerum xvii. cxl. f. 317/1 Rubus is a name propried to shrub, that beareth wilde Beryes, which heards eate for hunger. And the fruit thereof is first red, & spreadeth in long braunches, small, and round.
1668 T. Elborowe tr. Prospect Primitive Christianity 103 He who bears the goat into the wilderness, shall take of the wooll, and put it upon a dry brushie thorn, called Rubus, the berries of which we usually eat if finding them in the field.
a1682 Sir T. Browne Certain Misc. Tracts (1683) i. 8 Whether the Bush which burnt and consumed not, were properly a Rubus or Bramble, was somewhat doubtfull from the Original.
1759 J. Bartram Let. in J. Bartram et al. Corr. (1992) 452 We have four kinds of ye Rubus beside our common black rasberry.
1838 J. C. Loudon Arboretum II. iii. 734 The Nepal rubuses, as far as they have hitherto been introduced, are all brambles.
1890 Nature 3 July 222/1 The Rubus, on the other hand, is everywhere a most abundant and aggressive plant, springing up especially in bush clearings.
1903 S. Arnott Bk. Climbing Plants & Wall Shrubs 31 The Rubuses, or Brambles, are not sufficiently appreciated as wall or climbing plants.
1969 Times 6 Sept. p. vii/6 Like all these berry fruits—members of the Rubus genus—they need spraying at flowering time.
2009 Express (Nexis) 25 Apr. 54 Rooting times vary from one species to another..rubus and cornus can be rooted in six months or so.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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