| 单词 | aerial architecture |
| 释义 | > as lemmasaerial architecture aerial architecture n. †(a) now rare building ‘castles in the air’ (see castle n. 11); (b) Biology the structure of a plant above ground. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > daydream or reverie > [noun] > daydreaming dreaminga1400 musardryc1450 musardy1481 wool-gathering1608 woolling1705 castle-building1740 aerial architecture1750 Alnascharism1812 daydreaming1816 pipe dreaming1902 1750 Student 1 No. 6. 223 Castle-building, or the science of aerial architecture. 1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xxvii. 257 With such triumphs of aërial architecture did Mrs. Nickleby occupy the whole evening. 1852 C. J. Douglas Heir of Ardennan I. xii. 284 Hers..was somewhat more vague than that of her famous predecessor in aërial architecture. 1990 Jrnl. Biogeogr. 17 410/2 Aerial architecture of perennial grasses could be classified into two general types. 2004 Plant Cell 16 2991/2 Transgenic CSN5A mutant plants display a severe disorganization in the whole aerial architecture. < as lemmas |
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