| 单词 | butter fruit |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbutter fruit butter fruit n. [in sense (a) after Malay buah mentega ( < buah fruit + mentega butter)] (a) a tropical persimmon tree native to the Philippines and Sri Lanka, Diospyros discolor, which produces a reddish-brown fruit with velvety skin and pale flesh; (b) an avocado; = butter pear n. (b). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > stone fruit > [noun] > avocado alligator pear1696 avocado1697 aguacate1758 marrow1763 butter fruit1902 butter pear1947 1902 Agric. Bull. Straits & Federated Malay States 1 532 The Butter fruit, Mabola of the Philippines, Diospyros discolor... The flesh [of the fruit] is cream coloured, and when properly ripened is of the softness of butter, whence its name. 1902 Carpología Mexicana (Boletin de la Sociedad Agricola Mexicana) 3 Ahuacate chico.—Persea gratissima. Gaert var.—Vegetable butter fruit.—Fruit d'avocatier. 1927 Overland Monthly Oct. 305/3 The ‘butter-fruit’ salad which you so much enjoy today will, doubtless, be far inferior to the brand which will be consumed by your children in the years to come. 1987 Perennial Edible Fruits of Tropics (U.S. Dept. Agric. Handbk. No. 642) viii. 239 The mabolo (also known as velvet apple and butter fruit), Diospyros disolor Willd. (family Ebenaceae), is perhaps the best of the tropical persimmons. 2015 J. S. Denker Carrot Purple 30 It has been variously called alligator pear, avocado pear, butter fruit, and butter pear. < as lemmas |
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