单词 | mussel plum |
释义 | mussel plum [Named from its resemblance in shape and colour to a mussel-shell.] A dark purple variety of plum. Also attrib. in mussel-plum cheese.
1626Bacon Sylva §509 The Muscle-Plumme, the Damasin Plumme [etc.]. 1657Austen Fruit Trees (ed. 2) 57, I esteeme the Mustle Plum one of the best. 1676Worlidge Cyder (1691) 220 The Muscle-plum one of the best of plums. 1729Langley Pomona 89 The Bruxel Apricot..is best propagated on the Muscle-Plumb Stock. 1808Mrs. Rundell Dom. Cookery (1824) 313 Mussel-plum Cheese. 1881Encycl. Brit. XII. 275/2 The Mussel, Brussels, St. Julien, and Pear plums. |

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