| 单词 | marmalade-box |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmarmalade-box marmalade-box n. †(a) a rectangular mould or ‘brick’ in which marmalade was set (obsolete); (b) the fruit of the genipap tree, Genipa americana, which contains numerous seeds embedded in a jelly-like pulp; (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 > other tropical or exotic fruits tamarind1539 guava1555 genipat1568 jack1582 genipap1613 custard apple1648 star apple1693 sweet-sop1696 breadfruit1697 sugar-apple1739 sweet-apple1760 guarri1789 ackee1792 marmalade-box1796 five-corner1826 jakkalsbessie1854 Molucca berry1861 bullock's heart1866 guava-apple1866 vegetable egg1866 Jew plum1880 1524 in J. S. Brewer Lett. & Papers Reign Henry VIII (1870) (modernized text) IV. i. 339 Presented by Hull of Exeter one box of marmalade.] 1577 Arte of Angling sig. Ev You must haue a pretty flatte boxe..or of an marmalat box. 1624 Althorp MS in J. N. Simpkinson Washingtons (1860) App. p. lviii 6 galley potts and 12 marmalett boxes for Mrs. Segrave. a1651 E. Grey True Gentlewomans Delight (1653) sig. C7 If you can get glasses made like Marmalet boxes to lay over them [sc. apricots], they will be sooner candi'd. 1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam II. xxviii. 318 A singular kind of fruit, called here the marmalade box,..the husk..opens in halves like a walnut, when the pulp appears like that of a medlar. 1836 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Plants (rev. ed.) 173 It [sc. Genipa americana] bears an excellent fruit, much in request in Dutch Guiana, where it is called Marmalade-box. 1949 L. H. Bailey Man. Cultivated Plants (rev. ed.) 933 G[enipa] americana, L... The fr. is largely used in trop. Amer., as a preserve under the name ‘Genipap’; sometimes called ‘Marmalade-Box’. 1969 T. H. Everett Living Trees of World 304/1 One species, the genipap or marmalade-box (G. americana), of this group of six West Indian and tropical American species furnishes edible fruits. < as lemmas |
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