| 单词 | piñon nut |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspiñon nut 1. An edible seed from the cones of several small pine trees native to south-western North America, esp. Pinus edulis. More fully piñon nut.Quot. 1822 refers to the seed of the physic nut, Jatropha curcas (cf. pignon n.1 2). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > edible pods, seeds, leaves, or flowers > [noun] > other edible seeds > pine-seeds pine nuteOE pines1327 pineapple kernela1398 pineapple seed?1440 pignon1526 pineapple1560 pinyon1577 pine kernel1598 neoza1832 piñon1834 pignoli1841 cembra nut1842 pinyon1846 cedar-nut1863 pignolia1891 Indian nut1922 pit1947 1822 S. Coleridge tr. M. Dobrizhoffer Hist. Abipones II. 261 In the Northern part of Paraguay there grows a nut called Piñon del Paraguay by the Spaniards, and by physicians nux Cathartica.] 1834 W. S. W. Ruschenberger Three Years in Pacific 86 There is another nut, called ‘piñon’, very similar to the chestnut in taste. 1848 Abert's New Mexico Rep. 1846–47 (U.S. Army Corps Topogr. Engineers) (1962) 46 The markets have..great quantities of..‘uvas’ or grapes, and ‘piñones,’ nuts of the pine tree, (pinus monophyllus). 1864 Rio Abajo Weekly Press (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 9 Feb. 3 Two [Navajo] women..had been ten days travelling, during which time their food was cedarberries and piñon nuts. 1920 C. F. Saunders Useful Wild Plants of U.S. & Canada 20 The Piñon or Pine-nut..[is] the plump, oily seed of certain..Far Western pines... Under the name of piñons they are sold in town throughout the South-west. 1946 D. C. Peattie Road of Naturalist (U.K. ed.) iii. 37 Up there the Piutes were feasting on piñon nuts and mountain sheep. 1993 Crosswinds (New Mexico) Jan. 15/2 A coalition..dedicated to the promotion and marketing of piñon nuts (more properly known by their Spanish name, piñones). < as lemmas |
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