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語源

From Anglo-Norman and Old French pomis (“pumice stone”), from Latin pūmex (“pumice stone”). Doublet of pounce.

発音

• IPA: /ˈpʌm.ɪs/
• Homophone: pomace
• 韻: -ʌmɪs
• ハイフネーション: pum‧ice

名詞

pumice (countable and uncountable, plural pumices)

1. A light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock, formed during explosive volcanic eruptions when liquid lava is ejected into water or air as a froth containing masses of gas bubbles, which are frozen into the rock as the lava solidifies.
   • 1912, Katherine Mansfield, The Woman at the Store, Oxford World's Classics 2002, page 10:

     The wind blew close to the ground - it rooted among the tussock grass - slithered along the road, so that the white pumice dust swirled in our faces - settled and sifted over us and was like a dry-skin itching for growth on our bodies.

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動詞

pumice (third-person singular simple present pumices, present participle pumicing, simple past and past participle pumiced)

1. (transitive) To abrade or roughen with pumice.

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