单词 | cannonball fruit |
释义 | > as lemmascannonball fruit cannonball fruit n. the large spherical hard-shelled fruit of the cannonball tree. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > South American and West Indian trees or shrubs > [noun] > cannon-ball tree or fruit cannonball tree1832 cannonball fruit1866 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 342 The Cannon-ball fruit: its shell is used as a drinking vessel, and its pulp when fresh is of an agreeable flavour. 1924 Cannon-ball Tree (Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Chicago) 4 Although the cannon-ball fruit, in spite of the name, never functions as a projectile, the Brazil-nut fruits, are dreaded as bombs. 2008 Jrnl. Torrey Bot. Soc. 135 201/1 Sulfur compounds..also contribute to the infamously unpleasant aroma of the cannonball or ‘abricó-de-macaco’ fruit, Couroupita guianensis Aubl. < as lemmas |
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