单词 | blue currant |
释义 | > as lemmasblue currant blue currant n. the edible bluish berry of any of various plants of the genus Ribes; esp. (North American) that of either of the North American wild currants R. americanum and R. bracteosum; (also) any of the plants themselves. ΚΠ 1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum civ. 1556 The Curran Grape is the small blew Currans that the Grocers sell, and have no kernells, whereof there is another sort that beareth red berries, almost as small but not so sweet.] 1655 Natura Exenterata 241 Take a handful of Spermint, an handful of Wood-sorrel, and half a pound of the best blew Currants. 1744 Philos. Trans. 1740–41 (Royal Soc.) 41 656 (note) John Aubrey..says, that a Gentlewoman had her sore Throat cured by a Pultess of Blue Currants. 1804 W. Clark Jrnl. 1 Aug. in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1986) II. 433 Those Praries produce the Blue Current Common in the U. S. 1923 Ecology 4 228 Blue currant, Ribes bracteosum Dougl. 1995 R. M. Pyle Where Bigfoot Walks v. 51 I picked blackcaps and blue currants, a welcome change from huckleberries. < as lemmas |
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