| 单词 | winter queening |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswinter queening winter queening n. now chiefly historical a late-ripening variety of apple which keeps well through the winter and has prominent angular ribs on the surface of the fruit and a pale yellow skin flushed with red.Cf. Queening n.1 ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > apple > cider apples ruddock1600 redding1611 stocking-apple1629 Harvey1640 genet-moyle1655 moil1657 winter queening1657 must1662 redstreak1662 redstreak apple1664 eleot1676 peeling1676 Sodom apple1676 stire1699 woodcock1700 underleaf1707 coccagee1727 white sour1727 sheepnose1817 Tom Putt1831 cider-apple1875 Slack-ma-girdle1885 sheep's nose1936 1657 W. Coles Adam in Eden clxviii. 257 The Winter Queening. 1709 J. Lawson New Voy. Carolina 108 Winter Queening is a durable Apple, and makes good Cider. 1873 Englishwoman's Domest. Mag. Dec. 326/2 Winter Queening.—Medium-sized fruit; skin pale yellow, slightly marked with dull red. Boils well, and is of a particularly pleasant flavour. November to May. 1922 V. Sackville-West Heir 63 The apples had his especial affection, and he never referred to them save by the personal pronouns, ‘Ah, Winter Queening,’ he would say, ‘she's a grand bearer’. 2002 Yorks. Post (Nexis) 21 Oct. Careful research was used to help replant the orchard with 300 trees, including many old varieties of pear, cherry and walnut and apple varieties with evocative names such as Green Custard, Catshead and Winter Queening. < as lemmas |
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