单词 | prickle-pear |
释义 | † ˈprickle-pear Obs. [f. prickle n.1 + pear n.; cf. prick-pear.] = prickly pear.
1624Capt. Smith Virginia v. 170 The Prickell-peare..growes like a shrub by the ground, with broad thick leaues, all ouer-armed with long and sharpe dangerous thornes. 1697W. Dampier Voy. round World (1699) 222 Here are several sorts of Fruits, as Guavo's, Pine-apples, Melons and Prickle-Pears. Ibid, The Prickle-Pear Bush, or Shrub,..3 or 4 foot high. 1792M. Riddell Voy. Madeira 86 A tribe of the cactus, or prickle-pear species. |

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