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单词 maracock
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maracockn.

Brit. /ˈmarəkɒk/, U.S. /ˈmɛrəˌkɑk/
Forms: 1600s amaracoc, 1600s maracoco, 1600s maracoko, 1600s mariock (probably transmission error), 1600s–1700s maracoc, 1600s– maracock, 1700s maracot, 1700s marcor, 1700s marococ, 1700s maycock, 1700s morocock.
Origin: Perhaps a borrowing from Virginia Algonquian.
Etymology: Perhaps < Virginia Algonquian.The form is not attested in Algonquian languages. The 18th-cent. variant maycock is apparently the basis of the later name may-pop (see May-pop n.); it perhaps arose by some confusion with maycock , a variant of the etymologically distinct word macock n., denoting a kind of squash and definitely of Algonquian origin.
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.
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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).
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