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单词 few-acred
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few-acred
Forming parasynthetic adjectives, as few-acred, few-celled, few-flowered, few-layered, few-seeded, few-whorled, etc. [With few-seeded compare scientific Latin pauciflorus (1731 or earlier).]
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1761 J. Hill Veg. Syst. II. iii. iii. 75 (heading) Few-flowered Elfwort.
1799 J. Hull Brit. Flora i. 53 Berry few-seeded.
1847 H. W. Longfellow Evangeline ii. ii. 92 Men and women and children, who..Sought for their kith and their kin among the few-acred farmers On the Acadian coast.
1864 Geologist 7 92 Pleurotomia Jukesii (n. sp.). Few-whorled, subconical,..consisting of five elevated whorls.
1895 Amer. Jrnl. Pharmacy 67 386 The transfusion tissue is few-layered.
1904 Lutheran Observer 29 July 27/1 I always found something busy at its life-work—a bug or a bird, some many-legged or some few-legged animal, even plants.
1957 Music Q. 43 173 At Ferrara, his compositions are mainly in the few-voiced concertato style.
1991 S. J. Gould Bully for Brontosaurus iv. 70 Most early typists used idiosyncratic hunt-and-peck, few-fingered methods.
2002 Indiana Gaz. 28 Dec. 14/2 The Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America argued that a few-celled embryo in a laboratory dish doesn't deserve the same protections as a person.
2007 F. Bargiela-Chiappini et al. Business Disc. 233 Finns considered themselves as ‘factual’ and ‘direct’ communicators, while Swedes referred to essentially the same characteristics as ‘blunt’, ‘pushy’, and ‘few-worded’.
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