释义 |
aweto|əˈweɪtəʊ, əˈwiːtəʊ| [Maori.] The vegetable caterpillar of New Zealand, consisting of a fungus which fastens upon caterpillars and mummifies them; dried and burnt it produces a pigment.
1889[see vegetable caterpillar s.v. vegetable a. 7]. 1896A. B. Jones in Pearson's Mag. Sept. 290 The dye..was a solution of burnt or powdered resin, or wood, or the aweto. |