| 单词 | bitter quandong |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbitter quandong b. More fully bitter quandong. The related shrub S. murrayanum; the bitter fruit of this. 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 > other plants producing edible berries shallon1806 mackaw bush1814 susumber1814 salal1825 quandong1836 tangle1857 turkey-berry1858 quandong1862 manatoka1897 riberry1988 1862 R. Henning Let. 2 Nov. (1966) 114 He [sc. an emu] also eats quandongs, a sort of wild plum that grows in the bush. They look very like the common black plums you preserve, but they are sour and bitter and harsh to an untold degree. 1878 R. B. Smyth Aborigines Victoria II. 172 Bitter quandong-tree—Gutchu. Quandong-tree—Bitchigal. 1933 D. Macdonald Brooks of Morning 46 The trained eye of a Mallee bushman picks out from a distance the ‘ming’ or bitter quandong, growing as a rule upon the lighter soils. 1975 A. B. Cribb & J. W. Cribb Wild Food in Austral. 140 Bitter quandong, as the name suggests, has bitter and inedible fruit. < as lemmas |
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