| 释义 |
muscose, a.|ˈmʌskəʊs|
[ad. L. muscōs-us, f. muscus moss: see -ose.]
Of the nature of or resembling moss; moss-like.
1707Sloane Jamaica I. 124 The flowers..being brownish, very small, muscose [etc.]. Ibid. 125 Small muscose flowers. 1817Chron. in Ann. Reg. 42/1 The hollows in her hull contain a quantity of fine black muscose mud.
Hence † muˈscoseness (Bailey vol. II, 1727), † muˈscosity, ‘mossiness’ (Blount Glossogr., 1656). |