| 单词 | seatangle |
| 释义 | > as lemmassea-tangle sea-tangle n. (see tang n.3, tangle n.1). sea-tangle 1. A general term for the larger seaweeds, species of Fucus and allied genera; = tang n.3 Often sea-tangle. (In spite of the chronology of the attestations, probably in origin an extended use of sense 2.) ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > algae > seaweed > [noun] > fucus seaweeds > tangle hangera1483 tanglec1540 tang1547 sea-ragged-staff1633 tangle-wrack1721 sea-cabbage1764 prickly tang1795 yellow tang1809 tangle-weed1825 fucoid1848 saw-wrack1868 tangle-work1890 c1540 J. Bellenden in tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. sig. Ciiijv Maister Alexander Galloway..liftet vp ane see tangle, hyngand full of mussill schellis fra the rute to the branchis. 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 62 He saw bred of a sey tangle, mussilis. 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 676 It hath gotten about the keele a deale of mosse, reits, kilpe, and tangle. 1665 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 1 13 Upon which..Rock-weed or Sea-tangle did grow a hand long. 1744 T. Preston in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 43 61 There are Plenty of Sea-weeds, called Tangle, growing on the Rocks, of which might be made Kelp. 1895 S. R. Crockett Men of Moss-hags lii Certain..persons were carrying away sea-tangle from his foreshore. < as lemmas |
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