amianthus
Noun
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Noun
amianthus (uncountable)
- A type of asbestos with long, soft, thin fibers.
- 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, I:
- the Microscope can afford us hundreds of Instances of Points many thousand times sharper: such as […] the ends of the stiriæ or small parallelipipeds of Amianthus […]
- 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, I:
- Portuguese: amianto
- Spanish: amianto
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