单词 | maracock |
释义 | maracockn. Now historical. The fruit of any of certain American passion flowers, esp. the may-pop, Passiflora incarnata, of the southern United States, and the grenadilla, P. quadrangularis, of tropical America. Also: any of these plants. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > climbing, trailing, or creeping shrubs > [noun] > passion-flowers maracock1609 passion flower1633 Virginian climber1688 passion-tree1728 love-in-a-mist1731 honeysuckle1756 passiflora1760 passionwort1846 New Zealand passion-flower1853 passion vine1853 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > tropical exotic fruit > passion-fruits or granadillas maracock1609 granadilla1613 water lemon1670 passion fruit1752 mayapple1775 sweet calabash1840 May-pop1851 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 > passion-fruit plants maracock1609 granadilla1613 passion-tree1728 water lemon1756 May-pop1851 1609 S. Forman in A. L. Rowse Simon Forman (1974) xi. 254 (modernized text) There is also in Virginia a kind of fruit called a maricock. They grow on the ground like a pompion... They are very sweet and luscious, very good to eat. 1612 J. Smith Map of Virginia 17 They plant also Maracocks a wild fruit like a lemmon. c1612 W. Strachey Hist. Trav. Virginia (1953) i. iv. 67 The Mariock-apple. 1649 Perfect Descr. Virginia (1837) 18 Fruits they have, Strawberries..Maracokos [etc.]. 1660 R. Sharrock Hist. Propagation & Improvem. Veg. 34 The Amaracoc or Passion flower. 1704 Dict. Rusticum at March Toward the latter end [of March] sow..Marcors, or Passion-Flower. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Morococks, A kind of Strawberry; a Fruit peculiar to Virginia and Mary-land. 1707 tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont Curiosities in Husbandry & Gardening 285 The Maracot is a Plant that creeps like Ivy. 1709 J. Lawson New Voy. Carolina 95 The Maycock bears a glorious flower, and Apple of an agreeable Sweet, mixed with an acid Taste. This is also a Summer-Vine. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Granadilla The common granadilla, called the maracot and passion flower. 1785 T. Jefferson Notes Virginia vi. 63 I shall confine myself too to native plants... Maracocks. Passiflora incarnata. [etc.]. 1896 P. A. Bruce Econ. Hist. Virginia I. 98 In addition, there were..maracocks or mayapples, beans and pumpkins. 2000 Re: Fruit Origins in rec.food.historic (Usenet newsgroup) 11 Aug. The market varieties of passion fruit seem to have come from Brazil (says the Oxford Book of Food Plants; John Smith picked up ‘maracock’ for a passionflower in Virginia from Algonkian. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1609 |
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