单词 | niggerhair |
释义 | > as lemmasniggerhair niggerhair n. U.S. regional (offensive now rare) a red alga, Polysiphonia harveyi. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > algae > seaweed > [noun] > others manatee grass1696 pepper dulse1724 pipeweed1755 sea-beard1777 Iceland sea grass1809 Porphyra1836 nullipore1840 sea-thread1843 niggerhair1852 lucky minnie's lines1853 marine sauce1866 hijiki1951 1852 Smithson. Contrib. Knowl. 5 ii. 41 This plant [sc. Polysiphonia arietina] is common in various places in Long Island Sound... ‘Pooh! that's what we call “nigger-hair”’. 1901 A. F. Arnold Sea-beach at Ebb-tide (ed. 2) 88 P[olysiphonia] harveyi... Called locally niggerhair. < as lemmas |
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