| 释义 |
neossine|niːˈɒsaɪn|
[f. Gr. νεοσσ-ός a young bird + -ine5.]
The substance of which the edible birds' nests of the East are made, being a mucus secreted by the salivary glands of a genus of swifts (Collocalia). Hence neˈossidine.
1849tr. Mulder's Chem. Veg. & Anim. Physiol. 241 The mucus from the œsophagus of the swallows, which in India build their edible nests of it... The pure mucous matter, which I called neossine, consists of [etc.]. 1894Morley & Muir Watts' Dict. Chem. IV. 342/2 It..is chiefly composed of a hyalogen (neossine), which yields as its hyalin, neossidine. |