单词 | riberry |
释义 | riberryn.ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > tree or plant producing edible berries > currant bush blackcurrant1633 currant-tree1649 currant1665 riberry1670 currant-bush1813 skunk curranta1817 1670 J. A. Comenius Janua linguarum trilinguis 22 The riberry bush (bastard currant-tree) S. Johns-berries [L. ribes, S. Johannis baccas]. 1676 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 11 628 But I never saw any of our English Currants, (Riberries) there. 2. Australian. The small-leaved lilly-pilly, Syzygium luehmannii (family Myrtaceae), a large forest tree of eastern Australia, grown as an ornamental and for its fruit. Also: the red pear-shaped fruit of this, used in jam, ice cream, sauces, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > tree or plant producing edible berries > other plants producing edible berries shallon1806 mackaw bush1814 susumber1814 salal1825 quandong1836 tangle1857 turkey-berry1858 quandong1862 manatoka1897 riberry1988 1988 Herald (Sydney) (Nexis) 30 Mar. (Taste section) 2 Ice-cream flavors include wattle seed, pink riberry and podacarpus plum. 1996 Advertiser (Adelaide) (Nexis) 18 Sept. The Bennelong restaurant..offers overseas visitors such novel tastes of Australia as potted possum with riberries and pickled pears. 2004 J. Postell Daytrips Eastern Austral. v. xxxiii. 223 Soak in the coolness under the even taller Riberry and Broad-leaved Lilly Pilly trees. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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