| 单词 | rock meal |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrock meal rock meal n. Geology a powdery mineral deposit, esp. rock flour; (also) = moonmilk n. ΚΠ 1822 tr. C. Malte-Brun Universal Geogr. II. xxxvii. 407 Near the Ural mountains, powdered gypsum, commonly called ‘rock meal’, is sometimes mixed with bread, but its effects are pernicious. 1868 J. D. Dana Syst. Mineral. (ed. 5) 680 Rock-meal (Berg-mehl Germ., Farina fossilis Bruckm., etc.) is white and light, like cotton. 1874 J. Muir in Overland Monthly July 69/1 The upper tributaries of its Hoffmann companion [sc. a glacier] continued to grind rock-meal for coming forests. 1966 Nature 21 May 832/2 In some cases the presence of ‘salts’ was obvious, either visible in form of efflorescences or verifiable by the taste of the rock meal. 1997 Current Anthropol. 38 455/1 The substrate consists of rock meal with abundant gravels. < as lemmas |
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