| 释义 |
moc-main Surg.|ˈmɒkmeɪn|
[a. Chinese muh-mien ‘cotton-tree, Bombax Ceiba’ (Williams Syllabic Dict. Chinese Lang.).
Loureiro Flora Cochin-chinensis (1793) gives mo-mien-hoa as the Chinese name for Bombax pentandra.]
A white shining fibre of great lightness and elasticity, the produce of the seed-pod of the silk cotton-tree, Bombax heptaphyllum, native of Cochin China and Cambodia.
moc-main truss, a specially designed truss padded with this elastic fibre.
1856in Mayne Expos. Lex. 1866Treas. Bot. 748/1 Moc-main, a Chinese name for Bombax Ceiba. 1866Chambers's Encycl. s.v. Silk-cotton. 1881 Syd. Soc. Lex., Bombax heptaphyllum,..a tree which affords the substance called moc-main. |