单词 | dung-coloured |
释义 | > as lemmasdung-coloured dung-coloured adj. of the colour of dung; (esp. in later use) of a dull yellowish or greenish brown. ΚΠ 1763 Public Advertiser 2 Nov. Two Dung-coloured Suits of Cloaths. 1855 Percivall's Hippopathology (new ed.) II. xi. 347 The softer ones [of stones found in the colon] are dung-coloured, or of a dirty-black hue. 1955 D. Jones Look not upon Me iii. 211 On the ground lay a single khaki puttee, unrolled and looking like flat, dung-coloured snake. 2014 Philadelphia Inquirer (Nexis) 2 May a15 Thursday's surge left..two..apartment complexes engulfed in murky, dung-colored water. < as lemmas |
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