| 单词 | touchwood boletus |
| 释义 | > as lemmastouchwood boletus 2. More fully †touchwood boletus, touchwood fungus. Any of several bracket fungi used as tinder, esp. Fomes fomentarius (family Coriolaceae) and Phellinus igniarius (family Hymenochaetaceae). Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plants yielding fuel or manure > [noun] > fungi yielding tinder touchwood1597 agaric1812 society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > material for igniting > [noun] > fungus or rotten wood touchwood1597 punk1678 German tinder1776 punk wood1791 amadou1815 1597 J. Gerard Herball iii. clxii. 1386 Tree Mushrums be called..in Latin Fungi arborum, and Fungi arborei: in English tree Mushrums, or Touchwood. 1666 S. Pepys Diary 12 Nov. (1972) VII. 368 His Skeleton [is here seen] with the flesh on; but all tough and dry like a spongy dry leather or Touchwood all upon his bones. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 85/2 Touchwood [is] a kind of hard, dry, spungy Mushroom. 1777 J. Lightfoot Flora Scotica II. 1034 [Boletus igniarius] Touchwood Boletus. Anglis. 1829 A. H. Lincoln Familiar Lect. Bot. xxxv. 184 The genus Boletus contains the Touchwood, or Spunk, which is sometimes used as tinder. 1890 G. M. Gould New Med. Dict. Amadou, German tinder or touchwood, a fungus found on old tree-trunks. 1936 C. Carmer Listen for Lonesome Drum iii. iii. 109 Every day for four days I went to him and he gave me an emetic, a powder made out of touchwood fungus in a cup of water. 1996 T. Scott tr. F. W. Stöcker & L. G. Dietrich Conc. Encycl. Biol. 118/1 A similar fungus, Phellinus igniarius..(Hard amadou, Touchwood), grows on apple trees. 2014 Pretoria News (Nexis) 5 Apr. 4 Vikings..would boil touchwood for several days in urine, which would allow the material to smoulder rather than burn. < as lemmas |
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