snottite
/ˈsnɒtaɪt//ˈsnɑtaɪt/
构词拆解
snot
词干
‘mucus, especially nasal mucus’
词源链
- 英语English
snottite
词源说明
Blend of snot (“mucus, especially nasal mucus”) + stalactite, possibly coined by James A. Pisarowicz in unpublished field notes of an exploration of the Villa Luz Cave in Tabasco, Mexico, in 1988.
释义
名词noun
- 1(bacteriology) A colony of single-celled extremophilic bacteria that hangs in a sheet (having the consistency of snot or nasal mucus) from the ceilings