| 单词 | hippopotamus hide |
| 释义 | > as lemmashippopotamus hide C1. General attributive (in sense 1), as hippopotamus hide, hippopotamus ivory, hippopotamus tusk, etc. ΚΠ 1759 W. Lewis in tr. C. Neumann Chem. Wks. Index sig. 4H2 Hippopotamus tooth, chemical history of. 1822 Newcastle Mag. Dec. 644/1 He..makes a boat of a hippopotamus skin. 1846 Patent Jrnl. 19 Dec. 499/2 Hard indeed is a railway board; hippopotamus-hide is not less impressible: the latter is impervious to lead, the former is only to be perforated by gold. 1875 W. Maskell Ivories 14 The handle of a mirror in hippopotamus ivory. 1929 D. Bussy tr. A. Gide Trav. in Congo i. i. 29 Yesterday they had an open-air auction of hippopotamus meat in the market; the stench was unbearable. 1984 Science 19 Oct. 326/1 This new climate reconstruction is helping to explain why hippopotamus bones turn up in African deserts, among other puzzles. 2016 Edmonton (Alberta) Jrnl. (Nexis) 28 Jan. a2 Among the more notable items seized were 10 hippopotamus tusks. < as lemmas |
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