单词 | vegetable ivory |
例句 | If jewelry is what you are after, don’t miss Tagua 950, a tiny shop with a nice collection of bracelets, necklaces and earrings made from tagua nut, a rain forest seed known as vegetable ivory. Three Sides of Ecuador 2014-09-12T04:00:00Z They may be luxury commodities now, but civet coffee, eiderdown, sea silk, vicuña, vegetable ivory, guano and edible bird nests all started as local harvests. The 10 books to read in August 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z So hard in fact that they are also known as "vegetable ivory". How an obscure seed is helping to save the elephant - BBC News 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z The forests yield cinchona bark, caoutchouc, sarsaparilla, and vegetable ivory. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura 2011-04-14T02:00:56.200Z He was bald—completely bald—his head looked like vegetable ivory, and in despair he consulted a Saville-row physician. Original Penny Readings A Series of Short Sketches 2010-12-20T17:11:48.837Z What our hunters saw was neither more nor less than a grove of Tagua trees—better known as the “vegetable ivory.” Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt Rubber and vegetable ivory are the most valuable. Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges Phytelephas macrocarpa.—The vegetable ivory plant, a native of the northern parts of South America. Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture They contained kernels as hard as a stone, which put us in mind of vegetable ivory. In the Wilds of Africa Now there was one circumstance concerning our vegetable ivory of which we were ignorant, viz., that just as it was produced quickly, so it decayed quickly. Tales of the Caliph There is a vegetable ivory, no doubt, one of the palm species, and there is the ebon tree, the wood of which is black as jet. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 Buttons of vegetable ivory can be readily dyed. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" The fruit consists of a collection of six or seven drupes; each contains from six to nine seeds, the vegetable ivory of commerce. Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture The process of making these vegetable ivory buttons is as follows:—After boys have cracked the shells, the kernels are taken by men standing at benches in which small fine-toothed saws are revolving. The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 354, October 9, 1886 Among those products of the palm which we import most liberally is "vegetable ivory." Miscellanea Well, it is a vegetable ivory palm, and they run to about fifty or sixty feet. The Lost World Buttons of vegetable ivory, now one of the most important branches of the American button industry, were first made at Leeds, Mass., in 1859 by an Englishman, A.W. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Vegetable ivory may be distinguished from animal ivory by means of sulphuric acid, which gives a bright red color with the vegetable ivory, but none with the animal ivory. Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture The blanks are cut out of the shells by a steel tubular cutter, similar to that used in cutting the vegetable ivory. The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 354, October 9, 1886 First of all, it was the box-wood of the Jura that these rustic artists put into requisition, then buffalo and stags' horns, lastly, ivory, vegetable ivory, and foreign woods. Holidays in Eastern France |
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