| 单词 | oyster-green |
| 释义 | > as lemmasoyster-green oyster-green n. sea lettuce, Ulva lactuca, a green alga frequent in oyster beds. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > algae > seaweed > [noun] > sea-lettuce oyster-green1597 sea-lettuce1668 Ulva1706 green laver1762 1597 J. Gerard Herball iii. 1377 Lungwoort..groweth vpon rockes..especially among Oisters..; this Mosse they call Oister greene. 1701 W. Kennett Cowell's Interpreter (new ed.) Laver-bread, in Glamorganshire and some other part of Wales, they make a sort of Food of a Sea plant, which seems to be the Oyster-green or Sea-Liver-Wort. 1833 W. J. Hooker in J. E. Smith Eng. Flora V. 311 U[lva] latissima... Most authors consider this as a large state only of the following [sc. U. lactuca]. Both are..indiscriminately eaten under the name of green-laver, or Oyster-green. 1903 W. S. Furneaux Sea Shore (1922) xv. 354 The fishermen..call it [sc. U. lactuca] ‘oyster green’. a1978 ‘H. MacDiarmid’ Compl. Poems (1993) I. 458 It seems advisable to gloss a few words in this poem..cheirotherium, labyrinthodont; green-sloke, oyster-green; blehand, a brownish colour inclining to purple or violet. < as lemmas |
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