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单词 cloudberry
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cloudberryn.

/ˈklaʊdbɛri/
Etymology: apparently < cloud n. 3 + berry n.1 The name appears not to be of popular origin; but exact information as to its first use is wanting. Some have conjectured that it is < cloud in the sense of ‘rock, hill’, but apparently without any evidence.
a. The ‘berry’ or fruit of Rubus Chamæmorus.
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > berry > [noun] > other berries
hedge-berry1607
elderberry1625
ramble-berry1658
cloudberry1743
Indian pear1796
bluet1812
squawberry1829
pigface1830
wax-berry1835
quandong1836
strawberry guava1901
bead-berry1923
squash-berry1935
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > edible berries > other berries
blueberry1594
hedge-berry1607
elderberry1625
huckleberry1670
bearberry1677
cloudberry1743
baked apple1750
pembina1760
service1785
honeyberry1787
nub-berry1794
bluet1812
noop1817
squawberry1829
quandong1836
miro1838
strawberry guava1901
squash-berry1935
tayberry1977
tummelberry1984
1743–5 R. Pococke Trav. (1886) 46 Near Settle grows a sort of dwarf bramble, the berry of which they call cloud-berry, and the common people cnute-berry.
b. The plant, a small erect sub-shrub allied to the raspberry, growing on high mountains in Wales, the north of Britain, and the north of Europe, and bearing one large white terminal flower, and a large well-flavoured orange-coloured fruit.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > tree or plant producing edible berries > cloudberry or salmon berry bush
cloudberry1597
knotberry1633
mountain bramble1728
baked apple1750
averin1768
noop1817
Scotch cap1828
salmon berry1844
queen's berry1854
1597 J. Gerard Herball iii. 1368 This plant groweth naturally vpon the tops of two high mountaines..one in Yorkshire called Ingleborough, the other in Lancashire called Pendle..where the cloudes are lower than the tops of the same all winter long, whereupon the people of the countrie haue called them Cloud berries.
1633 T. Johnson Gerard's Herball (new ed.) App. 1630 This Knot, Knout or Cloud-berrie (for by all these names it is knowne to vs in the North..).
1846 Sowerby's Eng. Bot. (1864) III. 159 A sprig of the Cloudberry is the badge of the Highland clan Mac Farlane.

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General attributive.
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1856 Shairp in Knight Sh. & his Friends 181 Among a flock of cloudberry bushes on the hillside.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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