单词 | plant fibre |
释义 | > as lemmasplant fibre plant fibre n. ΚΠ 1858 A. M. Redfield Zoöl. Sci. 334 (caption) Nest of the Tailor-bird,..curiously formed by stitching with plant fibres or threads of cotton a dead leaf to a living one. 1955 K. Hutton & A. Swallow Chem. for Gen. Sci. xii. 174 Most of our clothes are made from plant fibres, e.g. linen from the stem fibres of flax and cotton from the seed-hairs of the cotton plant. 1997 Independent 3 Feb. i. 20/7 What is the strongest plant fibre? A fibre called ramie is the strongest. Its fibres are eight times as strong as those of cotton. < as lemmas |
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