单词 | ivy-berry |
释义 | ivy-berryn. a. The fruit or seed of the ivy. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > cultivated or ornamental vine > [noun] > ivy > branch, leaf, berry, or juice ivy-cropc1000 ivy-berryc1400 gum ivy?1550 ivy-bush1576 ivy-twine1597 ivy-bind1731 ivy-resin1753 ivy-gum1855 c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) xv. 168 It [a tree] is alle grene as it were Ivy Beryes. 1483 Cath. Angl. 199/1 An Iven bery, cornubus. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 235/1 Ivy berry, grayne de hierre. 1637 J. Milton Comus 3 His clustring locks With Ivie berries wreath'd. 1971 Country Life 25 Mar. 667/3 The woodpigeons..had been on the ivy berries and the clover fields. b. U.S. The wintergreen or checkerberry, Gaultheria procumbens. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > medicinal trees or shrubs > [noun] > non-British medicinal trees or shrubs > wintergreen shrubs wintergreen1778 mountain tea1785 spice-berry1792 partridgeberry1814 tea-berry1818 ivory plum1828 twinberry1836 ivy-berry1840 partridge bush1843 Gaultheria1848 checker-berry1852 partridge-vine1860 snowberry1866 one-berry1873 1840 Southern Literary Messenger 6 518/2 There were the fringed polygula, the buttercup, wild geranium, bunch~plum, ivy-berry. 1892 Jrnl. Amer. Folk-lore 5 100 Gaultheria procumbens, ivy-berry. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.c1400 |
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