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单词 witches' meat
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witches' meat
witches' meat n. Obsolete any of various organisms occurring in gelatinous masses; = witches' butter n. (b).Quot. 1835 shows an earlier use of witch-meat in the same sense, with witch as a modifier rather than in the genitive plural.
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1835 G. T. Burnett Outl. Bot. I. 231 By our foresters they are variously named, according to their forms and consistences, ‘Witch-guts’, ‘Witch-meat’, and ‘Witches'-butter.’]
1849 Visitor, or, Monthly Instructor Dec. 473/2 They are of a yellowish, whited, or brown colour, and woodmen call them witches' meat.
1867 Chambers's Encycl. IX. 531/2 Tremella..Several species are found in Britain. In some places, they receive such popular names as Witches' Meat and Witches' Butter.
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