| 单词 | green earth |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgreen earth green earth n. any of various greenish, clayey materials; spec. †(a) crude borax (obsolete); (b) the pigment terre verte; (c) Mineralogy the mineral glauconite. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > borates > [noun] > sodium borate boraxc1386 chrysocoll1590 chrysocolla1600 altincar1632 green earth1634 tincal1635 tincalconite1892 kernite1927 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > equipment for painting or drawing > [noun] > specific pigments motey1353 green earth1634 terre-verte1658 Terra Sienna1760 Siena1787 gamboge yellow1807 zinc white1847 zinc-powder1881 the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > silicates > phyllosilicate > [noun] > mica > glauconite green earth1794 glauconite1836 greensand1873 1634 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World (new ed.) II. xxxiii. v. 470 Chrysocolla, called otherwise Borax, or green earth, is found in those pits and mines that are digged for gold. 1695 J. Dryden tr. C. A. Dufresnoy Art of Painting 173 Terre Verte (or green Earth) is light; 'tis a mean betwixt yellow Oker and Ultramarine. 1715 tr. G. Panciroli Hist. Memorable Things Lost II. vii. 316 One kind of it [sc. a mineral] is called Borax, or Green Earth, which the Goldsmiths solder with. 1794 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) I. 196 Green Earth... Found generally in lumps in the cavities of other stones, or externally investing them. 1843 J. E. Portlock Rep. Geol. Londonderry 212 Green Earth is common, lining the cavities in amygdaloid throughout the basaltic range. 1914 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 1913 65 595 A few feet of yellowish tuff conglomerate, consisting of rolled fragments of a lighter color, with much green earth in minute particles. 2004 Independent (Compact ed.) 31 Mar. 12/4 There was Green Earth in the flesh tones, which was used rarely by other Dutch artists but was regularly found in Vermeer. < as lemmas |
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