单词 | blue-tangle |
释义 | > as lemmasblue-tangle blue-tangle n. (also †blue-tangles) North American the dangleberry, Gaylussacia frondosa (family Ericaceae), a shrub of eastern North America which yields an edible blue berry; cf. blue huckleberry n. ΚΠ 1814 F. Pursh Flora Amer. Septentrionalis I. 286 V[accinium] lanceolatum... flowers small, almost globular, white; berries large, blue, globular, eatable; called by the country people Blue-tangles. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 151/1 Blue Tangle, an American name for Gaylussacia frondosa. 1920 Encycl. Americana XXVII. 635/1 In swampy, sandy thickets one finds the tall resinous blue-tangle, or dangleberry (Gaylussacia frondosa). 2004 D. F. Austin Florida Ethnobot. 513 Gaylussacia frondonsa... blue-tangle; dangleberry. < as lemmas |
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