| 单词 | tropic grape |
| 释义 | > as lemmastropic grape tropic grape n. [after French raisin du tropique (1785 or earlier; 1814 in the passage translated in quot. 1814)] now rare any of several brown seaweeds of the genus Sargassum (sargassum n.) which occur in large masses in warm and temperate seas and have rounded grape-like air-bladders on their stems; = sea-grape n. 6. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > algae > seaweed > [noun] > gulf-weed sargasso1598 sea-lentil1633 gulf-weed1674 sea-thistle1703 tropic grape1814 sea-grape1825 sargasso weed1830 Gulf-Stream weed1884 sargassum1905 sargassum weed1928 1814 H. M. Williams tr. A. von Humboldt Personal Narr. Trav. II. 9 The tropic grape [Fr. le raisin du Tropique] fucus natans..grows on submarine rocks. 1850 A. Pratt Chapters Common Things Sea-side ii. 111 The Seagrape is an olive-green weed, with long slender leaves, and berries about as large as a pea, from which it derived its name of Tropic Grape. 1916 Harper’s Monthly Mag. Apr. 656/2 We were now well into the Gulf Stream. Its blue water was patched with yellowish seaweed, the ‘tropic grape’ (fucus natans) of Humboldt, strung out in long lines by the wind. < as lemmas |
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