单词 | neossine |
释义 | † neossinen. Chemistry. Obsolete. G. J. Mulder's name for: the mucoprotein which is found in the saliva of certain swiftlets and is the chief component of their edible nests. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Apodiformes > [noun] > family Apodidae > member of genus Collocalia > collocalia inexpectata > edible nest of > substance of neossine1849 neossidine1894 1849 P. F. H. Fromberg tr. G. J. Mulder Chem. Veg. & Animal Physiol. 241 The mucus from the œsophagus of the swallows, which in India build their edible nests of it... The pure mucous matter, which I called neossine, consists of [etc.]. 1894 H. F. Morley & M. M. P. Muir Watts' Dict. Chem. (rev. ed.) IV. 342/2 It [sc. the edible bird's nest]..is chiefly composed of a hyalogen (neossine), which yields as its hyalin, neossidine. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1849 |
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