| 释义 |
rough-skinned, a.
[rough a.]
Having a rough skin or bark. rough-skinned plum, the grey plum (plum n. 3 b).
1598Sylvester Du Bartas ii. ii. i. Ark 412 The proud Horse, the rough-skinn'd Elephant. 1752J. Hill Hist. Anim. 292 The compressed, roundish, rough-skinned Ostracion.., the Sunfish. 1846Lindley Veget. Kingd. 543 The Rough-skinned, or Gray plum of the same colony [Sierra Leone] is the produce of Parinarium excelsum. 1902Cornish Naturalist Thames 49 In the crevices of pines, oaks, elms, and other rough-skinned timber. |