| 单词 | lucky minnie's lines |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslucky minnie's lines lucky minnie's lines n. a brown seaweed, Chorda filum (family Chordaceae), having long ropelike fronds. Sc. National Dict. (at Luckie) records this word as still in use in Orkney and Shetland in 1961. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > algae > seaweed > [noun] > others manatee grass1696 pepper dulse1724 pipeweed1755 sea-beard1777 Iceland sea grass1809 Porphyra1836 nullipore1840 sea-thread1843 niggerhair1852 lucky minnie's lines1853 marine sauce1866 hijiki1951 1853 C. M. Yonge Herb of Field xxxi. 255 I have since learnt that sea-laces is their real name, and that in Shetland they are called Luckie Minnie's lines. 1857 C. M. Yonge Dynevor Terrace II. xii. 171 James..hurled after them the heap of sea-weed, all but one trailing festoon of ‘Luckie Minnie's lines’. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Lucky minie's lines, the long stems of the sea-plant Chorda filum. < as lemmas |
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