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单词 indian fig tree
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Indian fig tree
1. In full Indian fig tree. Now historical and rare.
a. The banyan tree, Ficus benghalensis.
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1594 T. Blundeville Exercises v. vii. f. 257 The Indian figge tree groweth round about Goa..the fruites are small Figges, and red as blood.
1635 J. Swan Speculum Mundi vi. §4. 280 There is also among the Indians a tree called Arbore de rais, or the tree of roots, called also the Indian fig-tree, and by some affirmed (with more confidence then reason, saith one) to be the tree of Adams transgression.
a1715 N. Tate tr. A. Cowley Of Plants v, in A. Cowley Wks. (1721) III. 411 The Indian Fig-Tree next did much surprize, With her strange Figure, all our Deities.
1885 C. J. Stone Christianity before Christ 93 He perceived a sacred Indian fig-tree.
1956 K. Svendsen Milton & Sci. i. 31 The familiar passage is the famous description of the Indian fig tree, for which many sources have been suggested.
b. A banana plant (genus Musa).
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1598 W. Phillip tr. J. H. van Linschoten Disc. Voy. E. & W. Indies i. iv. 9/1 Therein [sc. in Mozambique] growe..Orange, Apple, Lemmon, Citron, and Indian Figge trees [Du. Indiaensche Vyghen]: but other kindes of fruit which are common in India are there verie scarce.
1598 W. Phillip tr. J. H. van Linschoten Disc. Voy. E. & W. Indies i. lv. 98/1 (heading) Of the Indian Figges.
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 505 The Indian Figge~tree: if it may bee called a tree, which is not above a mans height, and within like to a reede..it hath leaves a fathom long, and three spannes broad..men beleeve that Adam first transgressed with this fruit.
1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum xvi. lxix. 1495 Musa arbor. The Indian Figge or Plantaine tree.
1664 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense 82 in Sylva [Plants] being least patient of Cold... Dactyls, Pistacio's, the great Indian Fig, Lilac flo. alb., [etc.].
2002 Garden Hist. 30 165 The banana was first called the Indian fig tree by the Portuguese.
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