punnet

n. 圆形浅底小篮

发音

AU /ˈpʌnɪt/

词形变化

punnets 复数 punnets

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A small basket or receptacle for collecting and selling fruit, particularly strawberries.

    爱尔兰 英国

    Thus, according to the same Year-Book, a sea-kale punnet measures 8 in. in diameter at the top and 7½ in. at the bottom, being 2 in. deep, while a radish punnet is 8 in. in diameter and 1 in. deep, if to hold six “hands,” or 9 in. by 1 in. for twelve “hands.” A mushroom punnet is 7 in. by 1 in., while a salading punnet is 5 in. by 2 in.

    Most of the fruit for market is picked and sold in punnets, but for jam making buckets are used, similar to the raspberry bucket.

    Early this season, Ross Lill got together with a plastics firm to produce a flat tray to replace the commonly used punnet.

词汇关系

名词

上位词 2

basket handbasket

词源

Uncertain. First appears in the 1820s. Perhaps a diminutive of pun, a dialect variant of pound, the weight + -et. The suggestion that it is an eponym of Reginald Crundall Punnett (1875–1967), geneticist and grower of strawberries, is not chronologically possible. The suggestion it was an ancestor of his lacks evidence.

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