| 单词 | sea ivory |
| 释义 | > as lemmassea ivory sea ivory n. ivory from the tusks and horns of marine mammalia (see also Compounds 6f below). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > bone or horn > [noun] > ivory > types of morphil1615 sea ivory1851 walrus-ivory1875 1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick xvi. 77 Those thews ran not through base blocks of land wood, but deftly travelled over sheaves of sea-ivory. 1883 Official Catal. Internat. Fisheries Exhib. (ed. 4) 78 Sea Ivories, Horns, Bone, &c. manufactured and rough. 1968 G. Jones Hist. Vikings i. i. 23 Southwards..went skins and furs, amber, sea-ivory, and slaves. sea ivory sea ivory n. a pale greyish lichen, Ramalina siliquosa, growing in flattened branches on sea-shore rocks; see also Compounds 6a. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > lichen > [noun] > other lichens cup-moss1597 ground liverwort1597 Usnea1597 perelle1712 oak moss1728 necklace moss1759 rag1759 thrush-lichen1759 Iceland lichen1777 Iceland moss1785 map lichen1796 scripture-wort1835 letter lichen1846 dog lichen1853 fairy cups1855 velvet moss1858 manna lichen1864 tree-hair1866 famine-bread1887 old man's beard1888 sea ivory1966 1966 F. H. Brightman Oxf. Bk. Flowerless Plants p. viii/1 ‘Sea Ivory’..grows abundantly wherever there are rocks exposed at high-water mark. < as lemmas |
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