单词 | oil tube |
释义 | > as lemmasoil tube oil tube n. a tube that conveys oil; (Botany) = vitta n. 4a. ΚΠ 1856 Pacific Railway Reports: Bot. Papers (U.S. War Dept.) IV. 165 Carpels with five equal, prominent, corky, and scabrous ribs, in the intervals of which there are single oil-tubes, and two in the commissure. 1856 Putnam's Monthly Mag. Aug. 207/1 Arago and Augustine Fresnel..produced the burner with..concentric hollow wicks, with an air-current passing up through each of the open, ring-like tubes or spaces between the concentric wick or oil tubes. 1930 F. D. Jones Ingenious Mechanisms I. ii. 52 The drill used was of the oil-tube twist type. 1976 Hortus Third (L. H. Bailey Hortorium) 1138/2 [Fruit] dry, of 2 ribbed or winged carpels, which contain oil tubes in the pericarp and separate at maturity. < as lemmas |
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