| 单词 | vegetable ivory |
| 释义 | vegetable ivory (once / 262652 pages) n WORD FAMILY vegetable ivory USAGE EXAMPLESThe forests yield cinchona bark, caoutchouc, sarsaparilla, and vegetable ivory. Various, The New Gresham Encyclopedia—Volume...(2011) He was bald—completely bald—his head looked like vegetable ivory, and in despair he consulted a Saville-row physician. Fenn, George Manville, Original Penny Readings—A Series of...(2010) The steamer by which they were going to cross was not an ordinary packet-boat, but a cargo-boat carrying vegetable ivory. MacKenzie, Compton, Sinister Street, vol. 1(2010) n nutlike seed of a South American palm; the hard white shell takes a high polish and is used for e.g. buttons Syn|Hyper apple nut, ivory nut seed a small hard fruit |
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