单词 | alembic |
释义 | alembic/əˈlɛmbɪk![]() noun ![]() A distilling apparatus, now obsolete, consisting of a gourd-shaped container and a cap with a long beak for conveying the products to a receiver.The ‘limbeck’ is an alembic, a piece of distilling apparatus known also to alchemists....
OriginMiddle English: via Old French from medieval Latin alembicus, from Arabic al-'anbīq, from al- 'the' + 'anbīq 'still' (from Greek ambix, ambik- 'cup, cap of a still'). |
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