| 单词 |
nut-gall |
| 释义 |
ˈnut-gall [f. nut n.1 + gall n.3] A gall produced upon the Dyer's Oak (Quercus infectoria), used especially as a dye-stuff.
1595Duncan App. Etymol. (E.D.S.) 69 Galla, a nutgall, or a sowters last. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 336 In this composition wee use only Nut-galles, that is an excrescence from the Oake. 1670–1Narborough Jrnl. in Acc. Sev. Late Voy. i. (1694) 40 Small Nut-galls growing on the Bushes. 1716Cheyne Phil. Princ. Nat. Relig. i. 250 This we evidently see in Nutgals, and the other Excrescences of the Leaves of Vegetables. 1807T. Thomson Chem. (ed. 3) II. 351 Deyeux found, that a French pound of nutgalls required 96 French pints of water. 1870Yeats Nat. Hist. Comm. 236 We receive nut-galls from Turkey, Greece,..Hungary, and Sclavonia. |

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