| 单词 | vegetable mummy |
| 释义 | > as lemmasvegetable mummy vegetable mummy n. rare (now historical) = mummy n.1 3. ΚΠ 1721 R. Bradley Philos. Acct. Wks. Nature 173 I have taken notice of a new invented Method of transplanting Trees with Safety, by means of a Vegetable Mummy. 1928 W. Johnson Gilbert White viii. 169 The substance known strictly as ‘vegetable mummy’ was composed of beeswax, rosin, and pitch. 1970 M. J. Petry Hegel’s Philos. Nature III. 268 He made a great deal of money by advertising his skill in grafting and propagating plants from buds and roots, and claimed to have discovered a vegetable mummy (consisting largely of copal and turpentine). < as lemmas |
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