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单词 fountainless
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fountainlessadj.

/ˈfaʊntɪnlɪs/
Etymology: < fountain n. + -less suffix.
Without fountains.
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the world > matter > liquid > dryness > [adjective] > arid or without water or moisture > without fountains
fountainless1671
1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iii. 264 Barren desert fountainless and dry. View more context for this quotation
1816 W. Scott Old Mortality v, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. III. 105 Like Hagar watching the waning life of her infant amid the fountainless desert.
1842 T. De Quincey Philos. Herodotus in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 20/1 A..wilderness..every where fountainless.
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