单词 | winter cherry |
释义 | winter cherryn. 1. Any of several plants of the nightshade family ( Solanaceae) with cherry-like fruit which is ripe in winter; (also) the fruit itself. a. The Chinese lantern, Physalis alkekengi, a Eurasian perennial grown as an ornamental for the inflated, papery, reddish calyx that encloses the red fruit (more fully red winter cherry); (also) any of certain related plants, as the Cape gooseberry, P. peruviana. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Solanaceae (nightshade and allies) > [noun] > physalis alkekengi1440 winter cherry1548 red nightshade1578 winterberry1608 pop vine1750 Physalis1754 cow pops1848 Jerusalem cherry1884 1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. G.iiij Solanum vesicarium..in englishe Alcakeng or wynter cheries. 1575 J. Banister Needefull Treat. Chyrurg. sig. M.viiiv Alcakengi, Winter cherie, a kynde of nightshade. 1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum 462 Halicacabum sive Alkakengi. Winter Cherries. 1721 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husb. II. 178 Winter Cherries are increased from the Roots by Sprouts or Runners. 1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Alkekengi The common medicinal Winter-Cherry. 1840 F. D. Bennett Narr. Whaling Voy. II. 328 Physalis edulis—Cape Gooseberry or Winter Cherry. 1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants Physalis Alkekengi,..Bladder Herb, Red Nightshade, Red Winter-cherry, Straw-berry-Tomato. 1930 Times Educ. Suppl. 18 Oct. 431/2 The windows of the florists are bright just now with the fruits of physalis, the winter cherry. 2014 Goulburn (New S. Wales) Post 10 Aug. He also runs 43 greenhouses, some of which grow tomatoes and the Chinese lantern plant, popularly known as the winter cherry. b. The Jerusalem cherry, Solanum pseudocapsicum, a perennial South American nightshade with ornamental, mildly poisonous, orange fruit, regarded as an invasive weed in some countries. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Solanaceae (nightshade and allies) > [noun] morela1400 nightshadea1400 petty morel?a1425 hound's-berryc1485 micklewort1531 manicon1543 garden nightshade1576 dulcamara1578 mad nightshade1578 raging nightshade1578 sleeping nightshade1578 solanum1578 tree nightshade1597 black nightshade1607 moonshade1626 mumme tree1629 winter cherry1629 blue bindweeda1637 canker berry1651 shrub-nightshade1666 poison berry1672 nightshade1733 woody nightshade1796 Sodom apple1808 African nightshade1839 solanal1846 felon-wood1861 shoo-fly plant1949 1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole 431 Amonum Plinij seu Pseudo-capsicum. Tree Night shade or the Winter Cherry tree. 1850 G. Glenny Hand-bk. Flower Garden 129 S. pseudo-capsicum is the Winter Cherry, a greenhouse bush, grown for its red cherry-like berries in winter. 1936 Canad. Hort. & Home Mag. Nov.-Dec. 245/2 The Jerusalem or winter cherry, Solanum pseudocapsicum, has long been cultivated as an ornamental plant for Christmas use. 2004 BBC Gardeners' World Dec. 29/2 The two types of plant I've picked are cyclamen and Solanum pseudocapsicum, also known as winter cherry. 2. Any of several balloon vines or heart-seeds of the genus Cardiospermum (family Sapindaceae), having fruit enclosed in an inflated calyx like that of Physalis (see sense 1a); esp. C. halicacabum, regarded as an alien weed in some countries (more fully black winter cherry). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > climbing or creeping plants > [noun] > heart-pea heart pea1597 Indian heart1597 winter cherry1597 heart-seed1759 balloon vine1835 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 270 The blacke winter Cherrie hath weake and slender stalkes somewhat crested, and like vnto the tendrels of the Vine. 1657 W. Coles Adam in Eden ccxxvii. 358 I find but three sorts of Winter-Cherryes, that which is called Halicacabum Petegrinum or the Black Winter-Cherry perishing at the very first approach of Winter; and therefore, and for other reasons ought not to be so called. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 222 The common Heartseed..sometimes called also Winter Cherry, or Heart Pea. 1976 Hortus Third (L. H. Bailey Hortorium) 221/1 [Cardiospermum] Halicababum L., Balloon vine, heart pea, winter cherry. 2009 A. Heath & R. Heath Field Guide Plants N. Botswana 422 Cardiospermum halicacabum L. Common names:..English balloon vine, black winter cherry, heart seed, heart pea. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1548 |
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