单词 | mussel plum |
释义 | mussel plumn. A dark purple variety of plum; the tree bearing this fruit, used chiefly as a stock for grafting. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > stone fruit > plum > other types of white plumc1330 bullacea1375 myxe?1440 prunelloa1450 bullace-fruit1530 horse plum1530 plum1530 wheat-plum1538 wheaten plum1542 choke-plum1556 pear plum1573 finger plum1577 scad1577 skeg1601 merchant1602 bullace-plum1608 malacadonian1608 prune plum1613 date plum1626 mussel plum1626 amber plum1629 black plum1629 primordian1629 queen mother1629 winter crack1629 myrobalan1630 Christian1651 Monsieur's plum1658 cinnamon-plum1664 date1664 primordial1664 Orleans1674 mirabelle1706 myrobalan plum1708 Mogul1718 mussel1718 Chickasaw plum1760 blue gage1764 magnum bonum1764 golden drop1772 beach-plum1785 sweet plum1796 winesour1836 wild plum1838 quetsch1839 egg-plum1859 Victoria1860 cherry plum1866 bladder-plum1869 prune1872 sour plum1874 Carlsbad plum1885 horse-jug1886 French plum1939 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §509 All your dainty Plummes, are a little dry, and come from the Stone; As the Muscle-Plumme. 1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole iii. xiii. 576 The blacke Mussell plumme is a good plumme, reasonable drye, and tasteth well. 1653 R. Austen Treat. Fruit-trees 56 I esteem the Musle Plum one of the best. 1676 J. Worlidge Vinetum Britannicum 173 The Muscle-plum one of the best of Plums. 1729 B. Langley Pomona 89 The Bruxel Apricot..is best propagated on the Muscle-Plumb Stock. 1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Prunus The Muscle Plum. This is an oblong, flat Plum, of a dark-red colour... The Flesh..[is] not well tasted, so that its chief use is for Stocks. 1751 R. Morris Life John Daniel in Lib. Imposters (1926) I. xi. 134 We..found..a fruit like a very large muscle plumb, which I remembered to have grown in our orchard at Royston. 1807 M. E. Rundell New Syst. Domest. Cookery (ed. 2) viii. 319 (heading) Muscle-plum Cheese. 1903 Eng. Dial. Dict. Muscle-plum... A long shaped plum, sweet but without much juice. 1909 Daily Chron. 21 Aug. 7/4 Mussel plums are not worth buying either for jam or pies. 1911 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 854/2 Plums are propagated chiefly by budding on stocks of the Mussel, Brussels, St Julien and pear plums. 1969 S. G. Harrison et al. Oxf. Bk. Food Plants 68/2 The oldest of this section is perhaps the ‘Quetsche’... The ‘Mussell Plum’ is similar but earlier. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1626 |
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