| 单词 | blood rain |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblood rain blood rain n. rain that is reddish in colour, esp. because of suspended dust or (less commonly) green algae containing red carotenoid pigments; (formerly also) †such an alga itself (obsolete); cf. bloody rain n. at bloody adj., n., and adv. Compounds 2a. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > algae > [noun] > blood-rain bloody rain1587 blood rain1612 the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > rain > [noun] > with suspended particles or pollution red rain?1660 yellow rain1755 blood rain1772 acid rain1845 sulphur rain1882 1612 J. Speed Theatre of Empire of Great Brit. 1st Index Bloud-raine. 1772 M. de la Roche Mem. Lit. (ed. 2) IV. 151 The Author..ascribes a Blood Rain to an extraordinary Quantity of Vapours arising from Mines of natural Cinoper, or Vermillion. 1853 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 12 409 This learned cryptogamist considers the Blood Rain to be an Algoid, and has described it as Palmella prodigiosa. 1917 Monthly Weather Rev. (U.S.) 45 218/2 Some blood rains have been found to be the meconial fluid ejected by large numbers of certain lepidoptera simultaneously emerging from their chrysalids. 2004 Daily Tel. 20 Aug. 9/6 Reddish brown Saharan dust—known as ‘blood rain’—arrives in Britain and coats cars every year around March. < as lemmas |
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