| 单词 | small fruit |
| 释义 | > as lemmassmall fruit small fruit n. North American (as a mass noun or in plural) (the edible fruit of) any kind of low-growing perennial, fruit-bearing plant. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > fruit or reproductive product > plant that bears fruit > [noun] > top-fruit or bottom-fruit soft fruit1695 small fruit1718 top-fruit1884 1718 Mrs. Mary Eales's Receipts 13 To Preserve Red Currants... Put in half a Pound of ston'd Currants; boil 'em as fast as you can... Stir all small Fruit as they cool, to mix it with the Jelly. 1777 J. Tytler Salmon's New Universal Geogr. Gram. 257 In Summer, the fields are verdant, and covered with flowers, and produce strawberries, rasberries, currants, and other small fruits. 1822 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Gardening iii. i. 537 This operation [sc. gathering] in the case of small fruits, as the gooseberry, strawberry, &c. is generally performed by the under gardeners. 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXVIII. 528/2 Acreages of Orchards and Small Fruit Plantations. 1926 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 11 July 12/3 Small fruit continue to show prominence, but some varieties are becoming scarce. 1950 Sci. Monthly Apr. 212 The story of the evolution of the groups from which our small fruits have been derived is shrouded in the mists of the geological past. 1994 Org. Gardening Feb. 79/1 Topdress strawberries, blueberries and other small fruits with manure or cottonseed meal. < as lemmas |
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