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meerschaum


  • 英式英标[\'mɪəʃɔm]
  • 美式音标[\'mɪəʃɔːm; -ʃəm]

n. 海泡石;海泡石烟斗

英文词源

meerschaum
meerschaum: see scum
meerschaum (n.)
type of soft white clay, 1784; from 1789 as "tobacco pipe with a bowl made of meerschaum clay," from German Meerschaum, literally "sea-foam," so called from its frothy appearance; from Old High German mari "sea" (see mere (n.)) + scum "scum" (see skim (v.)). A loan-translation of Latin spuma maris, itself said to be a loan translation of Greek halos akhne, from Persian kaf-i-darya.