单词 | adam's fig tree |
释义 | > as lemmasAdam's fig tree 1. The fruit of any of several plants of the genus Musa; a banana or plantain. Also (in full Adam's fig tree) the plant itself. Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > tropical exotic fruit > banana finger?a1425 muse1578 fig1582 banana1597 adam's figc1602 pisang1662 pisang fig1700 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 > banana or plantain musa1578 adam's figc1602 c1602 J. Sanderson in S. Purchas Pilgrimes (1625) II. 1617 At Damiatta..are great gardens, full of Adams figs,..these are also called Mouses. 1666 J. Davies tr. C. de Rochefort Hist. Caribby-Islands i. ix. 53 Some have thought this fruit so excellent and delicate, that they have imagined it to be the same which God forbad our first Parents to eat of in Paradise: accordingly they have named it Adams Fig-tree, or the Fruit-tree of Paradise. 1757 P. Templeman tr. F. L. Norden Trav. Egypt & Nubia I. 81 Adam's fig trees, vulgarly called bananas, and the beautiful cyprus trees of Old Cairo. 1796 Monthly Rev. Nov. 246 The leaf of the banana resembles a long and broad girdle, which, undoubtedly, procured for it the name of Adam's fig-tree. 1815 New Monthly Mag. Apr. 239/1 The pisang, banana, or Adam's fig-tree, is an herbaceous plant, that grows to the height of a tree, and is remarkable for the prodigious size of its leaves. 1870 Sci. Opinion 26 Jan. 88/2 According to other historians, the Adam's fig was the plant which the messengers brought out from the promised land to Moses. 1949 H. W. von Loesecke Bananas i. 7 Sixteenth century writers commonly referred to the fruit as ‘apples of paradise’ or ‘Adam's fig’, from the legend that the banana was the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil of the Garden of Eden. < as lemmas |
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