单词 | gunyang |
释义 | gunyangn. Botany. An Australian shrub, Solanum laciniatum or S. vescum, which bears edible orange fruits; cf. kangaroo-apple n. at kangaroo n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > tropical or exotic fruit-tree or -plant > of Australia kangaroo-apple1834 poroporo1840 gouty-stem1846 nonda1847 gunyang1867 Adansonia1988 1867 W. Woolls Contrib. Flora Austral. 125 The native name of this fruit is ‘gunyang’. 1874 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. Suppl. Gunyang, Solanum vescum, known by this name in Victoria, where the native tribes collect its fruits eagerly as an article of food. 1887 D. Macdonald Gum Boughs 222 A dwarfed ti-tree, clinging low about the ground, like the gunyang or kangaroo apple. 1911 W. R. Guilfoyle Austral. Plants 334 Solanum aviculare ‘Kangaroo Apple’. ‘Bulli Bulli’, or ‘Gunyang’ (herbaceous shrub, 6 to 8 ft.). 1965 Austral. Encycl. VIII. 196/1 S[olanum] aviculare, ranging almost across the temperate part of the continent..is the kangaroo apple—called gunyang by former Victorian aborigines and poro~poro or kohoho by the Maoris. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1867 |
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