单词 | citrus wood |
释义 | > as lemmascitrus wood b. In sense 2, esp. as citrus wood. ΚΠ 1848 T. Keightley Satires & Epist. Horace 174 We are further not sure that the citrus-wood tables, which were round, were ever used as dinner-tables. 1926 E.A. Powell In Barbary xxii. 453 A cypress-like tree which is found both in the Moroccan and the Algerian Atlas... has been identified with the citrus-wood of the ancient Romans. 2002 S. T. A. M. Mols in W. F. Jashemski & F. G. Meyer Nat. Hist. Pompeii ix. 226/2 Citrus tabletops were invariably mounted on ivory legs. < as lemmas |
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