| 释义 |
gypsous, a.|ˈdʒɪpsəs|
[f. gyps-um + -ous. Cf. F. gypseux.]
= gypseous 1 and 2.
1655Fuller Hist. Camb. 129 An exhalation in moist weather out of Gipsous or plaisterly ground. 1811Pinkerton Petral. I. 501 The statues of the superb mausoleum..are of gypsous alabaster. 1852Th. Ross Humboldt's Trav. III. xxxii. 394 Nothing..proves the independence of those arenaceous and gypsous soils. |