Tyrian purple
基本解释
- adj. 紫色的
- n. 紫色
英汉例句
- To obtain one ounce of Tyrian purple dye, she had her servants soak 20, 000 Purpura snails for 10 days.
为了获得一盎司提尔紫色染料，她让仆人将20 000个紫癜蜗牛浸泡10天。 - Some example are indigo, from the indigo plant, and Tyrian purple , the imperial purple the Romans prepared from a shellfish native to the Mediterranean.
例如靛蓝，来自靛蓝色植物。泰尔紫也叫帝紫，古罗马人从原产于地中海的贝壳类动物制作的。 - Any of various marine gastropods of the genus Murex common in tropical seas and having rough, spiny shells, especially M. trunculus, the source of Tyrian purple.
骨螺一种盛产在热带海洋的海生骨螺属腹足类动物，壳粗糙而常有棘尤指M。
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双语例句
英英字典
- a deep purple dye obtained from molluscs of the genus Murex and highly prized in antiquity