英语词汇“bastard olive”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

bastard olive n. either of two shrubs or trees of the family Oleaceae: (a) oleaster or wild olive, Olea europaea var. europaea (also figurative and in figurative contexts); †(b) Australian a mock olive, genus Notelaea (obsolete).

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1631 J. Floyd Paire of Spectacles viii. 119 Euen out of the kernel of the mild, fatt, and necessary (or profitable) oliue, the sower bastard olive groweth.

1840 Bengal Catholic Expositor 25 Jan. 51 Combining two principles which are essentially opposite, the tree was justly regarded as a monster. It was..disowned as a bastard olive, by the Catholic Church, and..eschewed by the Dissenters.

1866 Technologist 6 107 The imports of resin into Sardinia are very limited, and the only resin collected in the Island is from the Bastard Olive (Oleaster), at Orosei, on the east coast.

1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants 223/1 Notelæa ligustrina, Bastard Olive, of Victoria.

1910 Leader (Melbourne) 7 May 10/4 The curryong (Brachychiton populneus) with its bright green leaves is in evidence and vies with the bastard olive, one of the finest evergreens.

1998 Sicily (Michelin Green Guide) 21 The bastard olive (Olea oleaster) grows everywhere; this spiny shrub produces rather mean, less fleshy fruits than its cultivated cousin.

单词	bastard olive
释义	> as lemmas bastard olive bastard olive n. either of two shrubs or trees of the family Oleaceae: (a) oleaster or wild olive, Olea europaea var. europaea (also figurative and in figurative contexts); †(b) Australian a mock olive, genus Notelaea (obsolete). ΚΠ 1631 J. Floyd Paire of Spectacles viii. 119 Euen out of the kernel of the mild, fatt, and necessary (or profitable) oliue, the sower bastard olive groweth. 1840 Bengal Catholic Expositor 25 Jan. 51 Combining two principles which are essentially opposite, the tree was justly regarded as a monster. It was..disowned as a bastard olive, by the Catholic Church, and..eschewed by the Dissenters. 1866 Technologist 6 107 The imports of resin into Sardinia are very limited, and the only resin collected in the Island is from the Bastard Olive (Oleaster), at Orosei, on the east coast. 1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants 223/1 Notelæa ligustrina, Bastard Olive, of Victoria. 1910 Leader (Melbourne) 7 May 10/4 The curryong (Brachychiton populneus) with its bright green leaves is in evidence and vies with the bastard olive, one of the finest evergreens. 1998 Sicily (Michelin Green Guide) 21 The bastard olive (Olea oleaster) grows everywhere; this spiny shrub produces rather mean, less fleshy fruits than its cultivated cousin. extracted from bastardn.adj.adv. < as lemmas
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