单词 | superbience |
释义 | † superbiencen. Obsolete. rare. N. Grew's name for: (perhaps) maturation or ripening (of the flesh of a fruit). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by age or cycles > [noun] > state of being or becoming ripe or mature ripingeOE ripenessOE ripeOE maturity?1440 ripening1561 maturation1621 superbience1672 coction1693 overripeness1806 blood-ripeness1826 1672 N. Grew Anat. Veg. vi. 150 As the Pill is but the continuation of the utmost part of the Barque; so is this but..the swelth and superbience of the Inner part thereof. 1702 R. Neve Apopiroscopy ii. 108 The swelth and superbience of the Parenchyma of the Bark. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1672 |
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