单词 | irroration |
释义 | irroration|ɪrɒˈreɪʃən| [n. of action from irrorate v.: cf. F. irroration (1762 in Dict. Acad.).] †1. A sprinkling or wetting as with dew; a bedewing, besprinkling, moistening. Obs.
1623Cockeram, Irroration, a sprinckling, a moystning. 1638Rawley tr. Bacon's Life & Death (1651) 41 To the Irroration of the Body, much use of sweet things is profitable. 1672Phil. Trans. VII. 5033 A confused irroration of the external surface, without any ebullition. 1784tr. Spallanzani's Dissert. (L.), If..the irroration should be interrupted, the portion of eggs then excluded will be barren. 2. Zool., esp. Entom. A sprinkling of minute dots or spots of colour.
1843Humphreys Brit. Moths I. 124 Of a nearly uniform pale brownish buff, without irrorations. |

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