单词 | dark-leaved |
释义 | > as lemmasdark-leaved a. Forming adjectives with the sense ‘having (a) dark-coloured ——’, by combining with a past participle, as in dark-faced, dark-leaved, dark-veined, etc.Some of the more established compounds of this type are treated separately. ΚΠ 1571 T. Hill Contempl. Mankinde xxi. f. 90 Mercuries Tubercle, appeared obscure or darke shadowed. 1637 J. Milton Comus 5 Goddesse of Nocturnall sport Dark-vaild Cotytto. 1742 G. Leoni Notes I. Jones in N. Dubois & G. Leoni tr. A. Palladio Architecture (ed. 3) II. iv. 50/1 Light-vein'd Marble..dark-vein'd, ditto. 1813 W. Scott Bridal of Triermain ii. xxvii. 99 Slow the dark fringed eye-lids fall. 1870 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Iliad I. ii. 61 Forty dark-hulled Locrian Barks. 1906 Daily Chron. 30 July 6/6 Another dark-visaged countryman of Reid, a typical specimen of the black Celt. 1919 W. A. Burns Pract. Sheep Husbandry i. 13 They are a dark faced sheep, the wool coming well down over face and legs. 2009 Nature of Scotl. Winter 44/1 Mountain willows (woolly, downy and dark-leaved willows) are highly endangered in the UK. < as lemmas |
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