单词 | black gooseberry |
释义 | > as lemmasblack gooseberry black gooseberry n. any of several plants of the genus Ribes (cf. ribes n. 3) which bear dark-coloured fruit; the fruit itself; esp. †(a) the blackcurrant, R. nigrum (obsolete); (b) a black variety of the gooseberry, R. grossularia; (c) North American the swamp gooseberry, R. lacustre. ΚΠ 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball vi. xx. 682 The blacke Gooseberies are lyke to the aforesayde..sauing they be of a blacke colour... The second kinde is called Ribes nigrum, in English Blacke Gooseberies. 1732 R. Bradley Fruit Garden Display'd: June 16 The Round Black Goosberry. This Kind makes a Bush about three Foot high, and was raised from Seed at Mr. Whitmill's. 1829 W. Cobbett Eng. Gardener vi. §271 I regret the almost complete disappearance of the little smooth black gooseberry, and of the little hairy red gooseberry. 1890 Western Garden & Poultry Jrnl. Dec. 50/2 We have an abundance of black and yellow currents [sic] and black gooseberries of good size and quality. 1947 A. G. Harvey Douglas of Fir 259 Ribes..divaricatum var. irriguum Rock or black gooseberry. 2002 C. Varner Plants Whistler Region 103 Black gooseberry is an armed shrub to 2m in height... The small, dark purple berries are bristly and hang in clusters. < as lemmas |
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