| 单词 | animal material |
| 释义 | animal material (once / 695254 pages) n WORD FAMILY animal material: animal materials USAGE EXAMPLESBiological medicines are used to treat diseases and health conditions and are generally made from human or animal materials. Washington Times(Jun 22, 2014) As a technology rather than a metabolic mode, fermentation is the managed microbial transformation of raw plant and animal materials into foods that resist spoilage. Nature(Dec 18, 2013) Current Japanese national guidelines governing stem cell research allow mixing human and animal material in vitro but forbid in vivo experiments. Science Magazine(Jun 19, 2013) n material derived from animals Hypo|Hyper feather, plumage, plume the light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birds animal producta product made from animal material animal oilany oil obtained from animal substances dentin, dentinea calcareous material harder and denser than bone that comprises the bulk of a tooth bone, osseous tissuethe porous calcified substance from which bones are made hornthe material (mostly keratin) that covers the horns of ungulates and forms hooves and claws and nails shellthe material that forms the hard outer covering of many animals animal fatany fat obtained from animals down, down feathersoft fine feathers aftershafta supplementary feather (usually small) on the underside of the base of the shaft of some feathers in some birds contour featherfeathers covering the body of an adult bird and determining its shape alula, bastard wing, spurious wingtuft of small stiff feathers on the first digit of a bird's wing marabouthe downy feathers of marabou storks are used for trimming garments hacklelong slender feather on the necks of e.g. turkeys and pheasants flight feather, pinion, quill, quill featherany of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird scapulara feather covering the shoulder of a bird ambergriswaxy substance secreted by the sperm whale and found floating at sea or washed ashore; used in perfume lacresinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects; used in e.g. varnishes and sealing wax Sonora lacresembling lac; secreted by a scale living on twigs of certain Mexican shrubs; used locally as medicine animal gluea protein gelatin obtained by boiling e.g. skins and hoofs of cattle and horses fish gluegelatinous substance obtained by boiling skins fins and bones of fish drying oilan oil that hardens in air due to oxidation and is often used as a paint or varnish base ivory, tuska hard smooth ivory colored dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants and walruses baleen, whalebonea horny material from the upper jaws of certain whales; used as the ribs of fans or as stays in corsets tortoiseshellthe mottled horny substance of the shell of some turtles mother-of-pearl, nacrethe iridescent internal layer of a mollusk shell animal skinthe outer covering of an animal blubberan insulating layer of fat under the skin of whales and other large marine mammals; used as a source of oil bone fatfatty matter in bones extracted with solvents or by boiling or steaming; used chiefly in candles and cheap soaps and in lubricating greases Dippel's oil, bone oildark-colored ill-smelling oil obtained by carbonizing bone; used especially in sheep dips and in denaturing alcohol bone oilthe liquid portion of bone fat; used as a lubricant and in leather manufacture butterfatthe fatty substance of milk from which butter is made cod liver oil, cod-liver oilan oil obtained from the livers of cod and similar fishes; taken orally as a source of vitamins A and D lanolin, wool fat, wool greasea yellow viscous animal oil extracted from wool; a mixture of fatty acids and esters; used in some ointments and cosmetics fish oil, fish-liver oila fatty oil obtained from the livers of various fish acylglycerol, glyceridean ester of glycerol and fatty acids that occurs naturally as fats and fatty oils goose greasegrease derived from geese halibut-liver oila fatty oil from halibut livers that is used as a source of vitamin A lard oiloil consisting chiefly of olein that is expressed from lard and used especially as a lubricant, cutting oil or illuminant menhaden oila fatty oil obtained from the menhaden fish and used in paint and ink and in treating leather animal fiber, animal fibrefiber derived from animals neat's-foot oila pale yellow oil made from the feet and legs of cattle; used as a dressing for leather oleo oilobtained from beef fat; used in making margarine and soap and in lubrication porpoise oila yellow fatty oil obtained from porpoises and used as a fine lubricant dolphin oilan unsaturated fatty oil obtained from dolphins and used as a fine lubricant salmon oila fatty oil obtained from the wastes in canning salmon; used in making soap and dressing leather sardine oiloil obtained from sardines and used chiefly as a lubricant and in soap seal oila pale yellow to red-brown fatty oil obtained from seal blubber; used in making soap and dressing leather and as a lubricant shark oil, shark-liver oila fatty yellow to brown oil obtained from the livers of sharks; used for dressing leather and as a source of vitamin A sperm oilan animal oil found in the blubber of the sperm whale tallowobtained from suet and used in making soap, candles and lubricants tallow oilan animal oil obtained by pressing tallow; used as a lubricant beeswaxa yellow to brown wax secreted by honeybees to build honeycombs train oil, whale oila white to brown oil obtained from whale blubber; formerly used as an illuminant wool oilany oil used to oil wool before spinning material, stuff the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object |
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