| 单词 | rock hair |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrock hair rock hair n. now rare any of several hair-like lichens found on rocks; esp. Bryoria fuscescens (formerly included in the genus Alectoria), common in northern England and Scotland. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > lichen > [noun] > of unspecified or various types white moss?a1425 rock hair1724 crotal1777 1724 J. J. Dillenius Ray's Synopsis Methodica Stirpium Brit. (ed. 3) 65 Rock Hair. On the highest Rocks in Charley Forest Leicestershire. 1757 Philos. Trans. 1756 (Royal Soc.) 49 858 Muscus corallinus saxatilis,..Rock Hair. 1759 B. Stillingfleet tr. Misc. Tracts 145 The lichen jubátus, or rock-hair, in exulcerations of the skin. 1861 H. Macmillan Footnotes from Nature 94 A very curious lichen called rock-hair (Alectoria jubata), which covers with its beard-like tufts the trunks of almost every tree. 1913 Sc. Mountaineering Jrnl. June 273 Alectoria jubata, the ‘tree’ or ‘rock hair’, is dark in colour. < as lemmas |
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