| 单词 | fossil ivory |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfossil ivory fossil ivory n. ivory from the tusks of dead mammoths, mastodons, or elephants preserved in the ground. ΚΠ 1728 Philos. Trans. 1726–7 (Royal Soc.) 34 514 A remarkable Piece of Fossil Ivory, or rather of an Elephant's Tooth. 1875 W. Maskell Ivories 2 Another kind of real ivory—the fossil ivory. 2006 C. Stringer Homo Britannicus Introd. 24 Buckland argued that it was the skeleton of a woman dating from Roman times, whose fellow tribesmen had dug up fossil ivory from the cave floor. < as lemmas |
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