| 单词 | pharaoh's fig |
| 释义 | > as lemmasPharaoh's fig Pharaoh's fig n. (also †Pharaoh fig) [compare Middle French, French †figuier de Pharaon (late 14th–early 15th cent. or earlier), Middle French figue de Pharaon (1579 or earlier), Italian fico di Faraone (second half of the 14th cent.), all in sense ‘sycamore’] now rare (a) the sycamore fig, Ficus sycomorus (cf. figs of Pharaoh at fig n.1 1a); †(b) some species of the genus Musa (obsolete). ΘΚΠ 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 > banana tree > types of Pharaoh's fig?a1425 ensete1790 pisang1812 Lacatan1894 sucrier1911 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 > fig-tree > types of sycamore13.. sycamore-tree13.. sycamore-fig1615 Moreton Bay fig1849 Port Jackson fig1875 Pharaoh's fig1884 Illawarra1904 adam's fig1907 Moreton Bay1953 ?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 26 Þer er also fige treezse þat beres neuer lefes; bot þai bere fruyte on þe bare braunches. And þai er called Pharao fyges. ?c1590 J. Sanderson in S. Purchas Pilgrimes (1625) II. ix. xvi. 1617 There are about Cairo, a kind of tree called Pharohs figge trees. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. App. (at cited word) Pharaoh's Fig,..a genus of plants called by authors musa. 1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants Sycomorus antiquorum, Pharaoh's Fig. 1995 Canad. Jrnl. Afr. Stud. 29 228 The sycamore (Ficus sycomorus, or commonly Pharaoh's fig) is also renowned for the fine fig-fruits it produces. < as lemmas |
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