caput mortuum

名词 n.
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名词 n.
  1. Worthless residue of sublimation or distillation. uncountable
  2. Cardinal purple, a variety of haematite iron oxide pigment. uncountable
    — Were they working their way through the colours and now had reached the more abstruse layers of the spectrum? What would be next — caput mortuum, heliotrope? The colours of the day.

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Unadapted borrowing from Latin caput mortuum (literally “dead head”).
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