| 单词 | mother of vinegar |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmother of vinegar mother of vinegar n. a ropy slime which forms on the surface of alcoholic liquids during acetogenic fermentation and is used to initiate such fermentation in other alcoholic liquids; (also) the organism which produces this slime, which is a bacterium of the genus Acetobacter (formerly thought to be a fungus). ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > organic chemistry > other substances > [noun] > misc mother of vinegar1601 mother1682 pollenin1816 viscin1838 mothering1841 xylite1843 anethole1852 hypoxanthine1857 fibroin1861 gutta1864 xanthogen1864 vanillin1868 cerulignone1873 sinalbin1875 phloroglucol1881 scopoletin1885 irisin1887 givre1888 pararabin1893 urushiol1908 silvichemical1963 nopaline1972 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxviii. xvi. 334 A pultesse made of beasts dung & the mother of vinegre [Fr. avec de lye de vinaigre; L. cum aceti faece] tempered together. 1849 Commerc. Rev. South & West Oct. 344 [It] underwent a regular fermentation, developing those albumenous clouds, like the ‘mother of vinegar’, and presented sufficient characters to prove it to be of animal origin. 1879 Encycl. Brit. IX. 98/2 Mother of vinegar..is the ‘non-aerobiotic’ form of the mycoderma. 1937 Discovery Sept. 282/1 ‘Mother’ of vinegar, that jelly-like mass often seen in a bottle, is the vinegar bacterium itself, of a type known as xylinum. 2000 Guardian 18 Mar. (Weekend Suppl.) 77/1 Barrels filled with good wine and good vinegar..plus a bacteria-rich slime called mother of vinegar. < as lemmas |
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