| 单词 | bully-berry tree |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbully-berry tree attributive in bully bay, bully-berry tree, bully tree, names for certain genera of the order Sapotaceæ, also for a species of Mimusops (all natives of the West Indies and of Guyana). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > non-British timber trees > [noun] > of South America or West Indies > balata bully bay1657 balata1858 melkboom1917 1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 14 Loftie trees, as the Palmeto, Royall..Bully, Redwood. 1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 73 The Bully tree..bears a fruit like a Bullis in England. 1693 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 17 621 The Sope-Berry..Indian Damozen, and the Bully Bay. 1725 H. Sloane Voy. Islands II. 124 When old it had a great many sulci not unlike the Bully tree. 1750 G. Hughes Nat. Hist. Barbados 177 The Bully-Berry tree..a very durable timber tree. 1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam II. xxviii. 335 The bullet-tree..the bark is grey and smooth, the timber brown, variegated or powdered with white specks. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. Bully or Bullet Tree..a species of Mimusops. < as lemmas |
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