| 单词 | water apple |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswater apple water apple n. †(a) the sweetsop or sugar apple, Annona squamosa, of tropical America (obsolete); (b) any of several tropical Asian trees of the genus Syzygium (family Myrtaceae), esp. S. aqueum; the fruit of any of these trees; cf. rose apple n. 2. 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 > of tropical America > sweet-sop tree sweet-sop1696 water apple1696 sugar-apple1739 purple apple1754 custard tree1760 sweet-apple1760 sugar-sop1847 1696 H. Sloane Catal. Plantarum in Jamaica 205 Water-Apple, or Sweet-Apple. 1823 G. Crabb Universal Technol. Dict. at Apple Water apple, the Annona of Linnæus. 1907 G. P. Wilder Fruits Hawaiian Islands I. 24 Eugenia alba (white variety). Water apple. 1965 Indian Jrnl. Hort. 22 87 With a view to combining the delightful fragrance and sweet taste of rose apple and seedlessness and profuse fruiting habit of the white variety of water apple, a cross was made. 2012 D. Quammen Spillover lxx. 324 An infected bat feeds on a water apple, discarding the pulp (as bats do), which is besmeared with virus. < as lemmas |
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