单词 | cloudberry |
释义 | cloudberryn. a. The ‘berry’ or fruit of Rubus Chamæmorus. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. Compounds General attributive. ΚΠ 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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