单词 | chemurgical |
释义 | chemurgicaladj. Chiefly U.S. Now historical. = chemurgic adj. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > [adjective] > use of farm products chemurgic1934 chemurgical1934 agrichemical1985 1934 W. J. Hale Farm Chemurgic xi. 145 The chemurgical development of newsprint from young pine opens of course the next door to chemically purified alpha-cellulose itself. 1947 Rural Sociol. 12 119/1 This outcome is all the more sure because of the inelastic nature of the demand for farm products, even with the prospect of plastics and other such chemurgical innovations. 1994 Agric. Hist. 68 41 ‘Waste utilization’ or ‘alternative use’ now characterize what used to be called ‘chemurgical’ processes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1934 |
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