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单词 primavera
释义

primavera

/ˌpriːməˈvɛːrə /
noun [mass noun]
The hard, light-coloured timber of a Central American tree.
  • The tree is Cybistax donnellsmithii, family Bignoniaceae.
Primavera is a large rainforest canopy tree, sometimes reaching to 100 feet in the natural rainforest, with a straight clear bole up to 3 or 4 feet in diameter....
  • Deep in the rain forests of Central America, lumberjacks hew the primavera tree in the dark of a moonless night.
  • The primavera's sap rises and falls, not with the seasons, but with the phases of moon.
adjective [postpositive]
(Of a pasta dish) made with lightly sautéed spring vegetables: linguine primavera...
  • And I cannot see the point of using green peas in a risotto unless they are fresh, for example in a seasonal Italian primavera treatment.
  • One of my friends volunteered to make fettuccine primavera.
  • A main course of cannelloni in rosé sauce with risotto primavera was curiously served together in a bowl rather than on a plate.

Origin

Late 19th century: from Spanish, denoting the season of spring, from Latin primus 'first, earliest' + ver 'spring' (alluding to the tree's early flowering).

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