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発音

• IPA: /vɪˈmɪniəs/

形容詞

vimineous (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to twigs.

   Synonym: viminal

   • 1718, Mat[thew] Prior, “Alma: Or, The Progress of the Mind”, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], and John Barber […], →OCLC, canto III, page 365:

     As in a Hive's vimineous Dome, / Ten thouſand Bees enjoy their Home; / Each does her ſtudious Action vary, / To go and come, to fetch and carry: [...]

2. (botany) Producing long, slender shoots or twigs.

参照

• “vimineous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.