| 单词 | star-shot jelly |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstar-shot jelly 1. A translucent gelatinous mass found on the ground, vegetation, etc., once popularly supposed to result from the fall of meteors but now generally identified as colonies of the cyanobacteria Nostoc (see nostoc n.); = star jelly n. Formerly also attributive in †star-shot jelly. Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > algae > [noun] > nostoc star slime1440 slime1471 nostoc?1609 star shot1653 star1666 star jelly1702 shot star1811 witches' meat1849 will-o'-the-wisp1863 witches' butter1922 1653 J. Ford Queen i. sig. B3v Why, look, look ye, we are all made, or let me be stew'd in Star-shut. 1660 T. Bushell Extract Abridgm. Bacons Philos. Theory Mineral Prosecutions sig. G3 Star-shot jelly and other like magical ingredients. 1702 A. de la Pryme Let. 2 Feb. in Diary (1870) ii. 247 A bottle of Nostock..called Star Slough, or Star Shot Gelly,..a substance that falls from the starrs. 1766 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. ii. 142 The gelatinous substance, known by the name of Star shot..owes its origin to this bird [sc. the winter mew]. 1804 T. Bewick Hist. Brit. Birds II. 211 Star-shot, is believed to be the remains of half-digested worms. 1810 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 100 212 Upon shewing this jelly to Sir Joseph Banks, he said that it very much resembled what he had seen when a boy, in the country during the winter months, upon the ground, and on the boughs of trees, called star-shot jelly, from being supposed to be formed by falling stars. a1887 R. Jefferies Field & Hedgerow (1889) 170 It is a fungus unnoticed till it suddenly swells; I suppose this was the old chronicler's star shot. 1910 Nature 23 June 493/2 The variety of names under which it is known point to its common and widespread occurrence, e.g. pwdre ser, star-slough, star shoot, star shot, star-gelly or jelly, star-fall'n. 2005 Guardian 13 Jan. (Life section) 10/5 This description of a spectacular meteorite fall is a fine example of the phenomenon named by Welsh shepherds, pwdre (sometimes powdre) ser or ‘the rot of the stars’ and also known as star slough, star shot, star spawn or star jelly. < as lemmas |
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