英语词汇fortunella的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

fortunella. Fortunella, or the kumquat, is the only genus of well-known fruit trees to be named for a living person, and no more deserving eponym could be found than Robert Fortune (1813–80), Scottish botanist and traveler. Few men have equaled Fortune as a plant hunter. The author of Three Years’ Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China (1847) and other botanical books began traveling in the Orient for the Royal Horticultural Society in 1842. A former employee in the Socie- ty’s English gardens, his express orders were to collect flora and he brought many beautiful plants back to Europe, including the kumquat, tree peonies, the Japanese anemone, and a number of chrysanthemums. Fortune also introduced the tea plant into India for the East India Company, founding its cultivation there. The tallest species of Fortunella is only 10 feet high, the smallest a bush of about three feet, and the kumquat fruit is orange-like but smaller, having three to seven cells, or sections, as opposed to eight to 15 in the orange. The kumquat, which is eaten fresh or preserved, has been crossed with other citrus fruits into a number of strange hybrids, such as the citrange- quat and limequat.

词汇	fortunella
词源	fortunella. Fortunella, or the kumquat, is the only genus of well-known fruit trees to be named for a living person, and no more deserving eponym could be found than Robert Fortune (1813–80), Scottish botanist and traveler. Few men have equaled Fortune as a plant hunter. The author of Three Years’ Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China (1847) and other botanical books began traveling in the Orient for the Royal Horticultural Society in 1842. A former employee in the Socie- ty’s English gardens, his express orders were to collect flora and he brought many beautiful plants back to Europe, including the kumquat, tree peonies, the Japanese anemone, and a number of chrysanthemums. Fortune also introduced the tea plant into India for the East India Company, founding its cultivation there. The tallest species of Fortunella is only 10 feet high, the smallest a bush of about three feet, and the kumquat fruit is orange-like but smaller, having three to seven cells, or sections, as opposed to eight to 15 in the orange. The kumquat, which is eaten fresh or preserved, has been crossed with other citrus fruits into a number of strange hybrids, such as the citrange- quat and limequat.
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