单词 | silk-cotton |
释义 | silk-cottonn. 1. The silky, elastic down or fibre obtained from various bombaceous and other tropical trees, and chiefly used for packing, stuffing pillows and cushions, making paper, etc. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > plants, grasses, or reeds > [noun] > vegetable fibre > other plant fibre palmite1555 coir1582 pita1648 kitul1681 silk-cotton1697 pita-thread1748 abaca1751 khus khus1798 gomuti1811 coco fibre1813 Manila hemp1814 pineapple fibre1834 moog1840 piassava1841 Para grass1850 raffia1850 African hair1851 ambari1851 diss1855 munj1855 monkey grass1858 crin vegetal1859 mung1866 lauhala1880 bass?1881 raphia bast1882 istle1883 raphia grass1885 settler's twine1898 tucum1901 Manila fibre1921 bassine1923 sotol1942 1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World vii. 165 They [sc. white cotton-trees] bear a very fine sort of Cotton, called Silk Cotton..like the Down of Thistles. 1703 W. Dampier Voy. New Holland i. 21 The Silk-Cotton grows on tender Shrubs, 3 or 4 Foot high, in Cods as big as an Apple. 1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xxiv. 343 You have here Silk-Cotton the True Cotton, so much used in our manufactures [etc.]. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 1009/2 The silk-cotton of the Simool..is, like other silk-cottons, not adapted for spinning. 1882 S. F. A. Caulfeild & B. C. Saward Dict. Needlework 449/2 The Silk Cotton is enclosed within the capsules containing the seed, which is embedded in it. 2. silk-cotton tree, one or other of various species of tropical trees belonging to the genera Bombax, Eriodendron, Ochroma, and Pachira, which produce silk-cotton, esp. B. malabaricum, Munguba, or Ceiba, and E. anfractuosum or orientale. Cf. cotton tree n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > yielding fibre, thatching, or basket material > [noun] > trees or shrubs yielding fibre, etc. > silk-cotton trees gossipine1589 gossampine1601 cotton tree1670 god tree1681 silk-cotton tree1712 kapok1735 semul1809 ceiba1810 wool-tree1831 bombax1834 munguba1863 cabbage wood1885 1712 E. Cooke Voy. S. Sea 117 We found here some Guinea Pepper, and silk Cotton-Trees. 1781 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 71 168 This insect is most probably to be found in all countries where the silk-cotton-tree (Bombax) is indigenous. 1852 T. Ross tr. A. von Humboldt Personal Narr. Trav. Amer. I. iv. 148 A silk-cotton tree.., the trunk of which, in its fourth year, had reached nearly two feet and a half in diameter. 1885 A. Brassey In Trades 99 Herds of cattle grazed beneath the shade of huge silk-cotton trees. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1697 |
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