meerschaum
英 ['mɪəʃɔːm; -ʃəm]
美['mɪəʃɔm]
- n. 海泡石；海泡石烟斗
英英释义
- 1. a white clayey mineral
- 2. a pipe having a bowl made of meerschaum
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.