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单词 cuttle-bone
释义

cuttle-bonen.

Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈcuttle-bone.
The internal shell of the cuttlefish, a light, cellular, calcareous body of an elongated oval form enclosed in the substance of the mantle; formerly used in medicine as an antacid and absorbent, and now for pounce, as a polishing material, etc.
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1547 W. Salesbury Dict. Eng. & Welshe Bron alarch, Scuttel bone.
1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie 273 The powder of a Cuttell bone.
1656 J. Smith Compl. Pract. Physick 152 Driness of the Tongue is cured with scraping of cuttle bone.
1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 546/1 The..Cuttle-bone..formerly figured in the Materia Medica as an antacid.
1841 Penny Cycl. XXI. 373/1 The cuttle-bone, as it is erroneously termed, consists of various membranes hardened by carbonate of lime, without the smallest mixture of phosphate.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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