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語源

From Latin xylinum (“cotton”) +‎ -ous.

形容詞

xilinous (comparative more xilinous, superlative most xilinous)

1. (rare) Pertaining to or made of cotton.
   • 2002, Pascal Khoo Thwe, From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey, London: Harper Perennial, →ISBN, page 72:

     We wrapped him in a home-woven xilinous blanket and put him in the coffin, with his food and drink and a coin in his mouth for payment in another world, and carried him to the church.

   • 2003, Erin McKean, editor, Weird and Wonderful Words, Oxford, Oxfordshire, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 115:

     Once the bones are scraped, you could subject them to xesturgy, the process of conjoined polishing. You could then wrap the whole thing up in xilinous bandages—ones made of cotton.

   • 2018, Ellen Lupton, Andrea Lipps, The Senses: Design Beyond Vision, Hudson, N.Y.: Princeton Architectural Press, →ISBN, front cover:

     Beyond pungent, quiet, rank, silky, tart, unctuous, viscous, waxy, xilinous, yeasty, zingy Vision

参照

• 1997 08, David Grambs, The Endangered English Dictionary: Bodacious Words Your Dictionary Forgot, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 167:

  xilinous (ZIL-i-nus) pert[aining] to cotton their preference for xilinous sportswear