| 单词 | witch butter |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswitch butter ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > fungi > [noun] > tremella fungi fairy butter1700 witches' butter1718 Tremella1760 witch butter1847 witches' meat1849 1847 Anglo Amer. 26 June 220/2 The Devil is a humorous, pleasant gentleman; but his table is coarse enough, which makes the children often sick on their way home, the product being the so called witch-butter found in the fields. 1864 Intellect. Observer Feb. 13 The jelly alluded to has certainly not fallen from the sky, and [we] can pronounce it to be the plant..variously named by other authorities Nostoc, Tremella, ‘witch-butter’, and ‘shot stars’. 1895 C. J. Barton Evangel Ahvallah xvi. 161 Sticks upon whose bark were lichens and splashes of white which time had penciled with here and there touches of ‘witch-butter’. < as lemmas |
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