单词 | coconut shell |
释义 | > as lemmascoconut shell coconut shell n. ΚΠ 1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes III. sig. ccc/3 Cups of Coco Nut-shells, their vertues. 1678 Let. 4 Oct. (India Office Libr. MS G/20/7/121) Pray remember ye Coquer nutt Shells and long mulls formerly desired for ye prince. 1768 A. Rose Let. 20 Sept. in Philos. Trans. 1770 (Royal Soc.) (1771) 60 445 Their chief instrument being a large cocoa nut-shell, strung with guts. 1880 F. W. Burbidge Gardens of Sun ii. 18 In Singaporean gardens the rarest of moth orchids are planted in cocoanut-shells. 1913 J. G. Frazer Belief in Immortality I. xiii. 292 The Tami..collect in a coconut shell the maggots which swarm from the decaying corpse. 2007 I. Beah Long Way Gone 2008 47 I found an old machete and got to work on the coconut shells. < as lemmas |
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