| 单词 | bloodberry |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbloodberry bloodberry n. (a) a berry of a blood-red colour; (b) a perennial shrub, Rivina humilis (family Phytolaccaceae), of the southern United States and tropical America, which bears pale pink flowers and blood-red berries; (also) the berry of this plant; cf. rivina n. ΚΠ 1767 W. Tooke Weever's Antient Funeral Monuments (new ed.) 449 Dane-wort, which with red blood berries, cometh up here plentuously. 1871 J. Lonsdale & S. Lee Wks. Virgil 38 Then is the season to..gather the berries of the bay, and the blood-berries of the myrtle. 1882 Jrnl. Sci. 19 552 A similar remark may be made concerning the red juice of the blood-berry (Rivina humilis), which is used in South Carolina as rouge. 1918 Rep. N.Y. State Mus. 2 112 The female [gall midge] described below was reared from a bud gall on blood-berry, Rivina humilis. 2005 L. Niven & J. Pournelle Burning Tower ii. ii. 175 Time to get moving. I'll scout ahead for bloodberries. < as lemmas |
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