单词 | meteoric paper |
释义 | > as lemmasmeteoric paper ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > substance > [noun] > found on leaves, rocks, etc. snake-spit1823 meteoric paper1841 1841 Microsc. Jrnl. 1 25 The microscope has been ably employed by Ehrenberg to determine the composition of the Meteoric Paper of 1686. 1854 J. D. Hooker Himalayan Jrnls. II. xxii. 123 The fossil or meteoric paper of Germany..is also formed of the lowest tribes of fresh-water plants. 1870 Amer. Naturalist 4 279 The extreme lightness which these sheets of dead fibres have, renders them easily elevated into the higher strata of the air, whence they have been known to fall in violent showers... Sometimes this substance has been called ‘meteoric paper’. < as lemmas |
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