单词 | icaco |
释义 | icacon. A small tree, Chrysobalanus icaco, of the family Rosaceæ, native to tropical America and the West Indies; the fruit of this tree. Also called coco-plum n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > tropical exotic fruit > of South America or West Indies > other South American or West Indian fruits mammee1587 coco-plum1699 water-sop1716 icaco1752 cherimoya1758 West India mango1774 vegetable pear1777 cinnamon apple1796 jaboticaba1824 butternut1827 Quito orange1846 Barbados-cherry1858 mountain mango1861 Suriname cherry1895 feijoa1898 acerola1954 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 tropical America > icaco or coco-plum tree maiden plum1696 icaco1752 coco-plum1756 1752 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. (ed. 6) (at cited word) Chrysobalanus. This Genus of Plants is titled by Father Plumier Icaco which is the Indian name of this Fruit. 1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. ii. 250 (heading) Chrysobalanus... Icaco... The Cocco Plumb Tree. 1852 T. Ross tr. A. von Humboldt Personal Narr. Trav. Amer. II. xvii. 136 Hedges of bead-trees encircled groups of icacoes laden with fruit. 1887 C. A. Moloney Sketch Forestry W. Afr. 347 Icaco or Cocoa Plum of the West Indies. 1943 S. J. Record & R. W. Hess Timbers New World 454/2 The best known species [of Chrysobalanus] is the Coco Plum or Icaco, C. icaco L., which has a large edible fruit so wrinkled as to suggest the face of a monkey. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1752 |
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