单词 | bast fibre |
释义 | > as lemmasbast fibre bast fibre n. a bast cell; a group of bast cells; (also) fibrous material formed of such cells or groups of cells; cf. sense 1.In quot. 1821: fibres which are used in a similar manner to bast, but do not come from the phloem of a plant. ΚΠ 1821 H. E. Lloyd tr. A. von Chamisso in tr. O. von Kotzebue Voy. Discov. South Sea & Beering's Straits II. 430 (table) The bast fibres of the cocoa nut, also to clean the nut from them. 1894 E. S. Bastin Lab. Exercises Bot. ii. xii. 370 The bast-fibres occur either as isolated cells or as clusters of two or three scattered without much regularity through the inner bark. 1934 Financial Times 26 Mar. 1/3 Germany has temporarily forbidden purchase abroad of cotton, wool and bast fibre and other raw materials. 2004 W. Rymowicz in C. V. Stevens & R. Verhé Renewable Bioresources iv. 76 A retting process..is usually carried out after harvesting the bast fibres. < as lemmas |
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