| 单词 | marmalade plum |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmarmalade plum marmalade plum n. the fruit of the mammee sapota, Pouteria sapota (cf. sense A. 2); (also) the tree itself. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > tropical exotic fruit > natural marmalade mammee sapota1657 American marmalade1797 marmalade fruit1840 marmalade plum1882 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 > marmalade tree mammee sapota1657 Lucuma1745 natural marmalade1797 American marmalade1836 mammee1866 marmalade tree1866 marmalade plum1882 1882 J. Smith Dict. Pop. Names Plants 268 Marmalade Plum, a name in the West Indies for Lucuma mammosum, a tree of the Star Apple family (Sapotaceae). 1900 W. Fawcett in Cycl. Amer. Hort.: E–M 948/1 Marmalade is made from the fruit, whence the name of ‘marmalade plum’. 1951 G. H. M. Lawrence Taxon. Vascular Plants (1969) 663 Several members [of the Sapotaceae] are cultivated pantropically for the edible fruits, notably for the sapodilla..the sapote or marmalade plum..and the star apple. 1974 Encycl. Brit. Macropædia VI. 174/2 The sapote (Calocarpum mammosum) is another useful fruit from Central America... In the West Indies the sapote is called marmalade plum. < as lemmas |
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