单词 | sucrier |
释义 | sucriern. A sugar-bowl, usually made of porcelain and with a cover. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > setting table > table utensils > [noun] > vessel for sprinkling sugar, pepper, or salt > sugar-castor sugar-box1620 sugar-caster1676 sugar vase1848 sucrier1869 1869 C. Schreiber Jrnl. 9 Oct. (1911) I. 50 A Bow (sprigged) sucrier with cover and acorn top. 1904 E. Dillon Porcelain p. xxi Sèvres porcelain. Two small sucriers..Gros bleu and green ground, with birds on branches painted in white reserves. 1960 Times 18 June 11/2 But odd pieces—sucriers, cup and saucers, teapots—can be obtained at moderate cost. 1975 Country Life 4 Dec. (Suppl.) 43/1 Chelsea-Derby sucrier, c. 1770. Draft additions 1993 2. Locally, with pronunciation /sikie/. [Probably Trinidadian French creole.] = honey banana n. at honey n. and adj. Compounds 1b(c). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > tropical or exotic fruit-tree or -plant > banana tree > types of Pharaoh's fig?a1425 ensete1790 pisang1812 Lacatan1894 sucrier1911 1911 Phytopathology 1 45 About twenty years ago,..an epidemic practically wiped out this variety [sc. the ‘moko’ fig] so that now it is but rarely met with, and its place in cacao cultivations has been taken by the ‘sucrier’ or lady finger banana. 1938 Jrnl. Jamaica Agric. Soc. 42 464 Honey,..this variety is slender and grows to about the same height as the Apple but it is immune to Panama Disease. It is also known by the names Sucrier and Lady's Finger. 1961 C. W. Wardlaw Banana Dis. vi. 166 Two leaves had withered in the inoculated sucker of the Sucrier. 1986 Banana Bull. May–June 26/1 Sucrier, dessert cultivar, popular sweet variety of south east Asia. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1869 |
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