coconut matting
noun [ U ] UK uk/ˌkəʊ.kə.nʌt ˈmæt.ɪŋ/ us/ˌkoʊ.kə.nʌt ˈmæt̬.ɪŋ/ (US coir matting)
椰衣地垫，椰子壳做的垫子
a material, often used as a floor covering, made from fibres from the outside of a coconut (= a large fruit like a nut with a thick, hard, brown shell covered in fibre)
Just inside the doorway there was coconut matting. 在刚进门的地方放着一个椰子壳做成的垫子。
She took the coconut matting from the floor and hung it over the line outside where she beat every speck of dust from it. 她从地板上拿起椰壳垫，挂在外面的绳子上，仔细地要把上面的每一粒灰尘都拍掉。
See also: coir
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- The coconut matting got muddy very quickly after a game and was hard to clean.
- The most practical idea is to have a slight well let into the floor in front of the door and to fill it with coconut matting.
- His hair was like coconut matting.