| 单词 | french nut |
| 释义 | > as lemmasFrench nut French nut n. now English regional (Devon) and rare a walnut, the fruit of the walnut tree; usually in plural. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > edible nuts or nut-trees > [noun] > walnut walnutc1050 French nut?a1200 walsh-nut1368 bannuta1500 French walnut1639 Madeira nut1791 Jupiter's nut1866 ?a1200 (?OE) Peri Didaxeon (1896) 35 Do þanne ele to, þe beo of frencissen hnutu, and drince þæt. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. cviii. 998 Þe more notes þat ben frenssh notes, and of [þe] lasse þat ben auelanes. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball vi. lvi. 731 The fruit is called..in Englishe Walnuttes..and of some Frenche Nuttes. 1662 R. Mathews Unlearned Alchymist (new ed.) 137 A Woman far gone in a Scurvie,..ful of spots and knubs as big as French Nuts about her body. 1731 N. Salmon New Surv. Eng. II. 623 Walnuts are in the Welsh Language called French Nuts. 1825 J. Jennings Observ. Dial. W. Eng. p. xx The common kinds of walnuts are called French-nuts. 1851 Brit. Sylva iii. 68 It is most probable that we derive the walnut from France, as in Devonshire they are called French nuts. 1986 J. Downes Dict. Devon Dial. 60/1 French Nuts, walnuts. < as lemmas |
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