| 单词 | vegetable horsehair |
| 释义 | > as lemmasvegetable horsehair vegetable horsehair n. see quote. 1897.extracted from horsehairn.vegetable horsehair vegetable horsehair n. any of several hairlike substances obtained from plants; esp. the fibre of the leaves of the European palm Chamaerops humilis, and vegetable hair made from Spanish moss. ΚΠ 1856 B. Seemann Pop. Hist. Palms 65 The coarser parts [of the fibre]..found with this ‘vegetable horsehair’, are used by all the tribes who write on paper as pens. 1886 J. Bonwick French Colonies 145 A dwarf palm gives the vegetable horse-hair from its leaves. 1922 Harper’s Mag. Apr. 649/1 Certain forms of a plant called Tillandsia, belonging to the pineapple order,..are popularly known as ‘vegetable horsehair’. 2005 M. Ellatifi in M. Merlo & L. Croitoru Valuing Mediterranean Forests 86/1 Vegetable horse-hair is a plant fibre which is extracted, in the present case, from the dwarf palm tree (Chamaerops humilis). < as lemmas |
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