单词 | alien-looking |
释义 | > as lemmasalien-looking alien-looking adj. of foreign or strange appearance. ΚΠ 1829 J. Dunlop Glance at London, Brussels, & Paris 91 The Pier of Leith, with its alien-looking crews of strange vessels. 1861 ‘G. Eliot’ Silas Marner i. 1 The shepherd's dog barked fiercely when one of these alien-looking men appeared. 1943 Man 43 7/2 The emergence of this alien-looking culture has generally been explained by the assumption of an invasion from north Central Europe. 2005 M. Bjornerud Reading Rocks v. 157 These alien-looking organisms have been variously interpreted as lichenlike symbionts of fungi and algae, ancestors of modern arthropods and jellyfish. < as lemmas |
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