amianthus

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A type of asbestos with long, soft, thin fibers. uncountable,usually
    — the Microscope can afford us hundreds of Instances of Points many thousand times sharper: such as […] the ends of the stiriæ or small parallelipipeds of Amianthus […]

词形变化

amianthuses plural

词源

From Ancient Greek ἀμίαντος (amíantos, “undefiled”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + μιαίνω (miaínō, “I defile”).
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