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German book about packing fruit
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greengage
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Word definitions for greengage in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
from green + name of English botanist Sir William Gage (1657-1727) who first cultivated it in England c.1725.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Plum \Plum\, n. [AS. pl[=u]me, fr. L. prunum; akin to Gr. ?, ?. Cf. Prune a dried plum.] (Bot.) The edible drupaceous fruit of the Prunus domestica , and of several other species of Prunus ; also, the tree itself, usually called plum tree . The bullace, ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The greengages are a group of cultivars of the common European plum . The first true greengage was bred in Moissac, France , from a green-fruited wild plum (' Canerik ') originally found in Asia Minor; that original greengage cultivar nowadays survives ...
Usage examples of greengage.
When they had a neighbour to dinner on Sundays, she managed to have some tasty dish--piled up pyramids of greengages on vine leaves, served up preserves turned out into plates--and even spoke of buying finger-glasses for dessert.
On the table in the pavilion Kitty had put a big blue bowl of greengages and plums from Rannaldini's orchard, a matching blue vase of yellow snapdragons and red dahlias and two big jugs of lemon barley water but no alcohol.