单词 | olive lees |
释义 | > as lemmasolive lees olive lees n. the sediment deposited in a vessel containing olive oil. ΚΠ 1904 W. M. Dunne tr. G. Flaubert Best Known Wks V. i. 440 They had not forgotten a few of those plump little dogs with pink silky hair and fattened on olive lees,—a Carthaginian dish held in abhorrence among other nations. 1956 Classical Philol. 51 241/2 Pliny is noncommittal about the value of a method which Virgil..suggests for increasing the size of legumes (soaking the seeds in olive lees and soda before planting..). < as lemmas |
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