| 单词 | german paste |
| 释义 | > as lemmasGerman paste German paste n. a mixture of seeds, fat, and other ingredients used to feed birds. ΚΠ 1808 Monthly Mag. Jan. 556/1 When in a state of freedom, live food, such as flies, worms, &c. constitute their principal food, from which, perhaps, they are too suddenly withdrawn, to be fed on some such trash as is usually denominated ‘German paste’. 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products German-paste, a food sold for..cage birds..made of pea-meal, hemp-seed, maw-seed, lard, and honey or treacle. 1902 Proc. Zool. Soc. 2 Dec. 351 It was very tame and lively, and came readily to be fed by hand. It was fed upon boiled rice, boiled potatoes,..and German paste, also on bananas, grapes, pears, and nuts. 2002 Hobart (Austral.) Mercury (Nexis) 19 Oct. 42 Another way to feed birds is to wire a small container to a tree and place in it ‘German paste’. < as lemmas |
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