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单词 sapucaia
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sapucaian.

/sapuːˈkɑːjə/
Forms: Also 1600s iacapucaya, 1800s sapucaya.
Etymology: Brazilian; according to Von Martius < sopia egg + acaia a kind of forest tree; the fruit with its seeds resembling a nest containing eggs. Gandavo 1576 (Portuguese) writes zabucaes, plural.
1. A South American tree of the genus Lecythis.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > South American and West Indian trees or shrubs > [noun] > monkey-pot
sapucaia tree1820
monkey-pot1849
pot plant1858
sapucaia1869
lecythid1871
the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > South American and West Indian trees or shrubs > [noun] > sapucaia tree or fruit
sapucaia1613
sapucaia-nut1820
sapucaia1869
1869 R. F. Burton Explor. Highlands Brazil I. 120 Hereabouts also are two noble lofty Sapucaias, vestiges of the forest primeval.
2. The fruit of the tree, a sapucaia-nut.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > South American and West Indian trees or shrubs > [noun] > sapucaia tree or fruit
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sapucaia-nut1820
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1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 843 Of Fruits, he reckons the Iacapucaya, like a pot..with a couer on it.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.
sapucaia tree n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > South American and West Indian trees or shrubs > [noun] > monkey-pot
sapucaia tree1820
monkey-pot1849
pot plant1858
sapucaia1869
lecythid1871
1820 tr. von Weid's Trav. Brazil i. 105 The young foliage of the sapucaya tree.
C2.
sapucaia-brown n. Chemistry (see quot. 1868).
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1868 H. Watts Dict. Chem. V. 195 The shell of the fruit contains a tannin..which..in the older fruits is converted into a brown substance (sapucaia-brown).
sapucaia-nut n. the edible fruit of Lecythis Zabucajo and L. Ollaria.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > South American and West Indian trees or shrubs > [noun] > sapucaia tree or fruit
sapucaia1613
sapucaia-nut1820
sapucaia1869
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > edible nuts or nut-trees > [noun] > other nuts
walnut1553
sisyrinchium1629
Indian almond1685
breadnut?1740
peanut1794
sapucaia-nut1820
musk1827
breadnut1828
singhara1834
musk tree1835
wild chestnut1854
urucuri1860
nut palm1889
peanut1904
1820 tr. von Wied's Trav. Brazil i. 126 Some baskets..full of bananas, oranges, sapucaya-nuts [etc.].
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. at Lecythis Under the name of Sapucaia nuts, the seeds of L. Zabucajo are commonly sold in our fruit shops.
sapucaia-oil n.
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1884 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 746/1 Sapucaia oil, yielded by Lecythis ollaria.
sapucaia-wine n. (see quots.)
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1868 H. Watts Dict. Chem. V. 195 The juice (sapucaia-wine) which flows from incisions in old trees.
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