| 单词 | vegetable hair |
| 释义 | > as lemmasvegetable hair c. African hair or vegetable hair: see quots. 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 1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. IV. 1259 ‘Vegetable hair’, made of the leaves of the Algerian dwarf palm-tree..for the use of upholsterers. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 565 African Hair, the fibre of the leaves of the Palmetto, Chamærops humilis. vegetable hair vegetable hair n. now chiefly historical any of several hairlike substances obtained from plants; spec. a dried preparation of the Spanish moss, Tillandsia usneiodes, formerly used for upholstery; cf. vegetable horsehair n. ΚΠ 1844 W. Waterston Cycl. Commerce 217 Cotton-wool, or cotton.., a vegetable hair, or filamentous down, enveloping the seeds of different species of Gossypium. 1862 P. L. Simmonds Waste Products 46 In Trinidad, when steamed and dried, it [sc. T. usneoides] is used as a stuffing material, under the name of vegetable hair. 1937 Pop. Sci. Monthly June 33/1 Only recently, however, have scientific methods replaced the vegetable hair on the market. 1988 Florida Hist. Q. 66 267 Prepared moss was often referred to as ‘vegetable hair’ or ‘vegetable horse-hair’. Perhaps the use of this term helped sell the moss since it stressed the resemblance to a familiar product. < as lemmas |
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