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单词 moorfowl egg
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moorfowl egg
moorfowl egg n. (also moorfowl's egg) chiefly Scottish Obsolete a variety of pear; the tree bearing this fruit.
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1705 Lease in W. Hector Select. Judic. Rec. Renfrew (1876) 42 That pear tree called the Muirfowl Egg.
1817 Edinb. Encycl. (1830) XI. 212 The Muirfowl egg is another pear of good qualities, said to be originally Scottish.
1852 G. W. Johnson Cottage Gardeners' Dict. 690/1 Useful and profitable orchard Pears... Moorfowl's-egg.
1860 R. Hogg Fruit Man. 202 Muirfowl's Egg.—Fruit below medium size, roundish. Skin entirely covered with fine cinnamon-coloured russet.
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