| 单词 | white marseilles fig |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswhite Marseilles fig b. In full white Marseilles fig. A variety of fig with pale skin and flesh. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > tropical exotic fruit > fig fig?c1225 figo1589 porphyritis1706 Marseilles1725 Turkey fig1866 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Bee Take some of the Bark or Seed of Pomegranate..mixed with good sweet Wine or Mead, in which some Rosemary is boiled, or Marseilles Figs put in whole,..that they may eat and drink it. 1838 Penny Cycl. X. 267/1 The best sorts [of fig] for forcing are—the Ashridge Forcing. Figue Blanche. Early Forcing. Marseilles. Nerii [etc.]. 1860 R. Hogg Fruit Man. 75 Marseilles (Ford's Seedling; Pocock's; White Marseilles..).—Medium sized, roundish-turbinate. 1883 Harper's Mag. June 9/2 Between some of the buttresses are thriftily growing some cuttings from the famous white Marseilles fig-trees said to have been planted by Cardinal Pole. 1956 Dict. Gardening (Royal Hort. Soc.) (ed. 2) II. 822/2 Among the best [varieties of fig] for British gardens are the following:... White Marseilles. Fruit large, almost round. < as lemmas |
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