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rice-paper
[rice n.2]
(See quots. 1857 and 1872.)
1822Edin. Jrnl. Sci. (1825) II. 136 The rice-paper consists of long hexagonal cells, whose length is parallel to the surface of the film. 1849Balfour Man. Bot. §852 Some say that a species of Desmanthus is the source of the cellular substance called Rice-paper. 1857Henfrey Bot. 311 The substance called Rice-paper, prepared by the Chinese, consists of thin slices of the pith of Aralia papyrifera. 1872Oliver Elem. Bot. ii. 185 Rice-paper is prepared from the pith of Aralia papyrifera, a tree of Formosa; the pith is cut spirally and unrolled into small squares.
b. attrib. in rice-paper plant or rice-paper tree, the shrub Aralia or Fatsia papyrifera; also the sola-plant of India (æschynomene aspera).
1832Lindley Introd. Bot. i. ii. 61 As in the Horse Chestnut, the Rice-paper plant, and many others. 1849Balfour Man. Bot. §75 In the Rice-paper plant..the interior of the stem is occupied almost entirely by cellular tissue. 1882Garden Apr. 236/3 There is a wide ascending pathway, edged with Rice-paper plants. |