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語源

By surface analysis, green +‎ gage. See alternative etymology below, as this is incorrect: the etymology for gage is a back-formation from greengage.

発音

• IPA: /ˈɡɹiːnɡeɪd͡ʒ/

名詞

greengage (plural greengages)

1. A plum cultivar with greenish-yellow flesh and skin, Prunus domestica subsp. italica var. claudiana.

   Hypernym: gage

   • 1834, John Forbes, “Sketch of the Medical Topography of the Hundred of Penwith”, in Transactions of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, volume 2, page 66:

     The apricot rarely produces any fruit, except in a few places, and then very scantily. The greengage plum is nearly equally unproductive.

   • 1913, D. H. Lawrence, chapter 5, in Sons and Lovers:

     Just where the horse trams trundled across the market was a row of fruit stalls, with fruit blazing in the sun—apples and piles of reddish oranges, small greengage plums and bananas.

派生語

• greengagey

Further reading

• greengage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “greengage”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.