| 单词 | green marble |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgreen marble green marble n. marble coloured green, esp. by serpentine; (hence) serpentine; cf. verd-antique n. 1a. ΚΠ 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Charistium, a grene marble. 1696 tr. J. Dumont New Voy. Levant 202 I observ'd also several Columns of Pophyry and spotted Green Marble. 1811 J. Pinkerton Petralogy I. 366 Green marble..is also called sometimes serpentine marble, because in fact the green parts belong to the rock called serpentine. 1929 G. P. Merrill Minerals from Earth & Sky ii. iv. 280 The green marble, popularly called verd-antique, is an impure serpentinous rock. 1983 O. Andrews Living Materials (1988) vi. 92 (table) Serpentine... Popularly called ‘green marble’. 2001 S. Strum Barcelona i. 24 New façades of cream-coloured stone and green marble wrap the street face, housing the management offices behind. < as lemmas |
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