英语词汇“duffmould”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

1. Scottish and U.S. Soft or spongy matter covering the ground, esp. decaying vegetable matter (fallen leaves, etc.) covering a forest floor; leaf mould. Also more fully duffmould, leaf duff. Also (Scottish and Irish English (northern)): a soft and spongy kind of peat; a mass or piece of such peat. Cf. perhaps dowf adj. 6b.

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1822 S. Hibbert Descr. Shetland Islands 415 The wet stratum is..covered with a layer of duffmould, or dry decomposed moss.

1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. (at cited word) Dufe, a soft spungy peat.

1844 W. H. Maxwell Wanderings in Highlands & Islands I. xvi. 289 Dung, mixed with duff-mould.

1878 Pop. Sci. Monthly 13 289 This duff (composed of rotten spruce-trees, cones, needles, etc.) has the power of holding water almost equal to a sponge.

1886 Rep. Forest Comm. State N.Y. 102 I have seen the smoke from fires in the duff even after the snow has fallen.

1922 Jrnl. Forestry 20 242 The most characteristic feature of the spruce root systems is the exceedingly fine and complete fibrous network which it forms in the duff of the forest floor.

1970 J. H. B. Peel Country Talk iii. 46 Frost and rain have rubbled the soil into a duff.

1984 T. Horton Bay Country (1987) 20 The force of rainstorms was diffused through multiple stories of leaves and branches: and what fell to the ground, fell upon a centuries-old accumulation of leaf duff.

1995 J. Fenton Hamely Tongue 45 Doaf, a soft, spongy mass (esp. owl saft doafs o' peats the poorest type of flow peats).

2005 New Yorker 14 Feb. 221/2 The forest floor consisted of a soft duff of rotting redwood foliage.

单词	duffmould
释义	> as lemmas duffmould 1. Scottish and U.S. Soft or spongy matter covering the ground, esp. decaying vegetable matter (fallen leaves, etc.) covering a forest floor; leaf mould. Also more fully duffmould, leaf duff. Also (Scottish and Irish English (northern)): a soft and spongy kind of peat; a mass or piece of such peat. Cf. perhaps dowf adj. 6b. ΚΠ 1822 S. Hibbert Descr. Shetland Islands 415 The wet stratum is..covered with a layer of duffmould, or dry decomposed moss. 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. (at cited word) Dufe, a soft spungy peat. 1844 W. H. Maxwell Wanderings in Highlands & Islands I. xvi. 289 Dung, mixed with duff-mould. 1878 Pop. Sci. Monthly 13 289 This duff (composed of rotten spruce-trees, cones, needles, etc.) has the power of holding water almost equal to a sponge. 1886 Rep. Forest Comm. State N.Y. 102 I have seen the smoke from fires in the duff even after the snow has fallen. 1922 Jrnl. Forestry 20 242 The most characteristic feature of the spruce root systems is the exceedingly fine and complete fibrous network which it forms in the duff of the forest floor. 1970 J. H. B. Peel Country Talk iii. 46 Frost and rain have rubbled the soil into a duff. 1984 T. Horton Bay Country (1987) 20 The force of rainstorms was diffused through multiple stories of leaves and branches: and what fell to the ground, fell upon a centuries-old accumulation of leaf duff. 1995 J. Fenton Hamely Tongue 45 Doaf, a soft, spongy mass (esp. owl saft doafs o' peats the poorest type of flow peats). 2005 New Yorker 14 Feb. 221/2 The forest floor consisted of a soft duff of rotting redwood foliage. extracted from duffn.³ < as lemmas
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